Scientific Investigation
A tool that is used to measure mass.
What is a balance scale?
A person is standing at the start line ready to begin a race. He has this type of energy.
What is potential energy?
The 3 states of matter
What are solid, liquid, gas?
A complex network of interconnected food chains.
What is a food web?
It cannot be created or destroyed.
What is energy?
An if/then statement that predicts what will happen in an experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
A vibration is the rapid back and forth motion of matter which can result in _________.
What is a sound?
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter.
A group of the same species of animals living in a place.
What is a population?
The theory for when Earth's thermal energy creates movement of the crust.
What is plate tectonics?
A tool for classifying organisms.
What is a dichotomous key?
Light, a type of energy, travels in ______ _______.
What are transverse waves?
A special kind of mixture when one substance is dissolved in another.
What is a solution?
The role an organism plays in its surroundings.
What is a niche?
A path that will not allow electricity to flow.
What is an open circuit?
The thing we measure in an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
The bending of light rays as they pass from one material to another (1), the bouncing of light off a surface (2). (2 answers)
What are refraction and reflection?
A combination of two of more substances that can be physically separated into its individual components.
What is a mixture?
The green material a plant must have to make food through photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyll?
A boundary that causes mountains and underwater volcanoes to form.
What is a convergent boundary?
The thing that is changed in an experiement.
What is the independent variable?
The five types of simple machines
What are lever, pulley, wedge, inclined plane, or wheel and axle?
The smallest indivisble part of an element that retains the properties of that element
What is an atom?
Feathers, fins, and sharp claws are all examples of _____ _____.
What are structural adaptations?
A wire wrapped around an iron rod that creates a magnetic field.
What is an electromagnet?