STAAR 1
What is a resource that can not be made easily (oil, coal)?
Non renewable
When light rays bend or break through a surface, the light is __________.
refracted
What is a collection of water called?
accumulation
When sediment and rock is dropped off at it's new location.
deposition
What process of erosion creates sand dunes?
Wind
An energy source that has a continuous supply (solar power, wind power)
Renewable
Mass, volume, relative density, solubility, color, texture, shape
physical properties of matter
How is the best way to remove paperclips from a mixture of paperclips, sand, and plastic beads?
A magnet
Part of the sedimentary rock process that presses down with pressure and gravity.
Compaction
What is the process called when wind, water, or ice breaks down rocks?
weathering
Anything that takes up space and has mass.
Matter
A material that does not easily allow heat to escape.
Insulator
The source of all energy is the ____.
sun
What is the difference for organic matter to become a fossil or fossil fuel?
How quickly or slowly the organic matter is buried.
What does a herbivore eat?
plants
A ______ revolves around Earth
Moon
Fossils are usually formed in this type of rock.
sedimentary rock
A chemical reaction in which an item seems to "disappear" in water when mixed?
Solution
Type of energy that has the potential to move.
How long does the Earth revolve?
365 days
a path that one object takes around another object
revolution or orbit
the main ingredient to make a fossil fuel
dead organisms
Name one item less dense than water
oil, wood
When light bounces off of something
Reflection.
what does an omnivore eat?
plants and meat
long term weather patterns of an area is known as _______
Climate
This pattern is caused by the rotation of the Earth on its axis.
day and night cycle
An educated prediction of what might happen during a Scientific Investigation
hypothesis
Something that has never lived, but is vital to the ecosystem.
Nonliving things
The sun rises in the...
East
This process is when sediment is moved/carried away by wind, water or ice
Erosion
This imaginary line goes from the North Pole to the South Pole of the Earth.
the axis
Plants use _____, ______, and _____ to make food.
water, sunlight, and soil.
What are the planets in order from the sun?
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
What type of circuit is needed for electricity to flow?
A closed circuit.
_____ is when vapor cools and turns into clouds.
Condensation
What is it when water is heated and turned into a gas.
evaporation
When light rays bounce off an object, they _____ light.
reflect
Name an item to separate water and rocks.
Sieve
What does it mean when something floats?
less dense
Nickel, Iron, Cobalt, and Steel have this property in common.
magnetic
What is the living and nonliving things and the ways they interact in an environment (ex: redwood forest, swamp, Mojave Desert)
ecosystem
Causes objects to slow down or create heat
friction
When light bends?
Refraction
What is needed to create a circuit? (Name 3 things that could be used)
battery
wire or pathway
load