Scientific Investication
Force, Motion, and Energy
Matter
Life Processes
Living Systems
100
Things in an experiment that changes.
What are variables
100

What is energy?

What is the ability to do work?

100
Anything that has mass and takes up space
What is matter.
100
A gas that is used by the plant in photosynthesis
What is carbon dioxide
100
I am an animal missing a backbone
What is an invertebrate.
200

The variable that is changed by the scientist to test

What is the independent variable?

200
A person is standing at the start line ready to begin a race has what type of energy?
What is potential energy
200
The smallest indivisble part of an element that retains the properties of that element.
What is an atom.
200
The green material a plant must have to make food through photosynthesis
What is chlorophyll
200

An example of a nonvascular plant

What is moss or fern

300
This is used to measure mass
What is a balance scale
300
A vibration is the rapid back and forth motion of matter which can result in _________
What is a sound wave.
300

a special type of mixture where one substance (the solute) dissolves completely into another (the solvent),and cannot be easily seperated

What is a solution?

300
The femal part of the flower
What is the pistil
300
The role an organism plays in its surroundings.
What is a niche
400

Problem: How does the amount of water given to a plant daily affect its growth in height over two weeks?

Hypothesis: If a plant is given more water, then it will grow taller than a plant given less water.

What is the dependent variable?

What is plant growth?

400

Light, a type of energy, travels in _______________

What are transverse waves?

400

A combination of two of more substances that can be physically separated into ints individual componenets

What is a mixture?

400
The process of pollen reaching the pistil of a flower
What is pollination
400
Feather, fins, and sharp claws are all examples of
What is structural adaptations
500

Problem: How does the amount of water given to a plant daily affect its growth in height over two weeks?

Hypothesis: If a plant is given more water, then it will grow taller than a plant given less water.

What is the independent variable?

What is amount of water?

500

The bending of light rays as they pass from one material to another (1), the bouncing of light off a surface (2), and the bending of light waves as they pass through an object

1.What is reflection?

2.What is refraction?

500

The three states of matter

What is solid, liquid, gas?

500

The male part of the plant that contains the pollen

What is the anther

500

A bear eating enough food to prepare for hibernation

What is a behavioral adaptation?

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