Science Skills
Matter
Earth's Systems
Water
Outer Space
100
Which is smaller? A millimeter or a centimeter?
A millimeter
100
True or false: A gas has neither a fixed shape, or a fixed volume
True
100
All the gas and the air surrounding the earth
The atmosphere
100
What percent of the earth's water is saltwater?
97%
100
What word means the moon is "shrinking"?
Waning
200
An educated guess or prediction is called..
a hypothesis
200
What types of materials are good conductors of electricity?
Metals
200
How are igneous rocks formed?
When magma or lava cools and hardens
200
What step of the water cycle occurs when water falls from the atmosphere to the ground?
Precipitation
200
What is the shortest day of the year called?
The winter solstice
300
What are conditions that need to be met in a project?
Criteria
300
What kind of matter has a fixed volume but no fixed shape?
Liquid
300
The height of something above sea level
Altitude
300
Where is groundwater stored?
Aquifers
300
What phase does the moon have to be in for a lunar eclipse to occur?
Full moon
400
How many centimeters are in a meter?
100
400
The property of matter that describes a substance's ability to dissolve in water.
Solubility
400
What type of tectonic plate boundary is found where two plates pull apart from each other?
Divergent
400
How much salt is in water if referred to as..
Salinity
400
Explain the difference between Earth's rotation and revolution
Rotation is spinning on an axis (a day), revolution is orbiting around another object (a year)
500
Anything that prevents technology from producing the desired result
Limitation
500
What are two types of energy that can be reflected?
Light energy and sound energy
500
What processes form sedimentary rocks?
Compaction and cementation
500
Why can't we access most of the earth's fresh water?
Because it is trapped in the ground and frozen in ice
500
What phase of the moon is this?
Waning Gibbous