Plants/Animal
What is the fastest animal on two legs?
Ostrich (43 mph)
Give 2 examples of abiotic factors in an ecosystem
Answers will vary (wind, water, sunlight, rocks, minerals, air, oxygen, soil, rain, clouds, temperature, weather)
What is the largest continent?
Asia
What do you call the amount of matter in a solid, liquid, or gas
Mass
What do you call a force that opposes motion and acts between 2 objects that are touching.
How many bones do sharks have?
0
This is the sequence of who eats what or whom in a biological community in order to obtain nutrition.
A food chain
What is the region around much of the rim of the Pacific Ocean where many volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur?
The Ring of Fire
Which is the only mammal that cannot jump?
Elephant
Newton's 1st law is sometimes referred to as the law of what?
Inertia
What do you call a predator at the top of a food chain?
Apex predator
How many muscles does the human body have?
Over 600 (650-840 depending on how they are grouped)
What is the biggest fault line in North America?
The San Andreas Fault (California)
What do you call a material in which thermal energy does not move easily.
Insulator
If you stand next to a wall on a frictionless skateboard and push the wall with a force of 40 N. How hard does the wall push on you?
40 N
What is the green pigment found in the cells of the leaf that absorbs light energy?
Chlorophyll
Where is the smallest bone present in the human body?
The middle ear (stapes)
What makes our continents (tectonic plates) move?
Convection currents in the mantle
Which part of the human body is part of the skeletal system but is not a bone?
Teeth
In Newton's 2nd Law, what is the formula for force?
F = Mass x Acceleration (F=m x a)
What are 3 key things plants need for photosynthesis?
Water, carbon dioxide and sunlight
What is responsible for making red blood cells?
Bone marrow
What is the name of the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle?
Lithosphere
Which planets have rings around them?
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
A roller coaster moving swiftly around a loop is an example of what type of energy?
Kinetic