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📘 SCIENCE VOCABULARY
100

Clue: This type of energy transfer explains why cotton cloth keeps heat from escaping better than paper towels.

A. What is radiation?

B. What is conduction?

C. What is sound?

: B. What is conduction?

100

Clue: Energy moves from ground squirrels to rattlesnakes because energy flows from prey to this type of animal.

 A. What is a producer?

B. What is a predator?

C. What is a decomposer?

B. What is a predator?

100

Clue: Snow forms instead of rain when air temperatures are at or below this temperature.

A. What is the boiling point?

B. What is the freezing point?

C. What is room temperature?

B. What is the freezing point?

100

100 – Observations

Clue: Seeing two liquids form layers without guessing why is an example of this.A. What is an inference?B. What is an observation?C. What is a hypothesis? 

B. What is an observation?

100

Clue: This word means a push or a pull that can change how something moves.

A. What is energy?
B. What is force?
C. What is speed?

 B. What is force?

200

Forces

Clue: An object stays still when the upward force equals the downward force because this type of force equals zero.

A. What is friction?

B. What is a balanced force?

C. What is net force? 

C. What is net force?

200

Food Chains

Clue: Energy moves from ground squirrels to rattlesnakes because energy flows from prey to this type of animal. 

A. What is a producer?

B. What is a predator?

C. What is a decomposer?

B. What is a predator?

200

Earth’s Motion

Clue: This movement of Earth causes the Sun to appear to move across the sky each day.

A. What is revolution?

B. What is rotation?

C. What is orbit? 

B. What is rotation?

200

Inferences

Clue: Deciding one object is hotter than another using evidence is an example of this.

A. What is an observation?

B. What is a measurement?

C. What is an inference? 

C. What is an inference?

200

Clue: This word describes energy changing from one form to another, like electricity turning into light.

A. What is motion?
B. What is insulation?
C. What is an energy transformation?

 C. What is an energy transformation?

300

Newton’s Laws

Clue: According to Newton’s Second Law, increasing the mass of an object means you must increase this to change its motion. 

A. What is speed

?B. What is force?

C. What is direction?

B. What is force?

300

Natural Selection

Clue: Snails with thicker shells surviving more often is an example of this process that happens over many generations. 

A. What is adaptation?

B. What is competition?

C. What is natural selection?

C. What is natural selection?

300

Stars

Clue: The Sun appears brighter than other stars mainly because of this.

A. What is size?

B. What is temperature?

C. What is distance? 

C. What is distance?

300

Clue: In a fair test, all variables stay the same except this one.

A. What is the dependent variable?

B. What is the independent variable?

C. What is a constant?

B. What is the independent variable?

300

Clue: This word describes how heat moves from a warmer object to a cooler object by direct touch.

A. What is radiation?
B. What is conduction?
C. What is evaporation?

 B. What is conduction?

400

Energy Changes

Clue: Electrical energy changing into light energy is an example of this science idea. 

A. What is an energy transformation?

B. What is energy conservation

?C. What is energy loss?

A. What is an energy transformation?

400

Producers

Clue: Plants are called this because they make their own food using sunlight.

A. What are consumers?

B. What are producers?

C. What are predators? 

B. What are producers?

400

Water Cycle

Clue: Water flowing in rivers without changing into a gas or solid is called this stage of the water cycle.

A. What is evaporation?

B. What is condensation?

C. What is runoff? 

C. What is runoff?

400

Evidence

Clue: Data collected during an investigation is used as this in science.

A. What is a prediction?

B. What is an explanation?

C. What is evidence? 

C. What is evidence?

400

Clue: This word describes a living thing that makes its own food using sunlight.

A. What is a consumer?
B. What is a decomposer?
C. What is a producer?

C. What is a producer?

500

Dissolving Rate

Clue: Crushing salt before dissolving it makes it dissolve faster because it increases this. 

A. What is temperature?

B. What is mass?

C. What is surface area?

C. What is surface area?

500

Animal Systems

Clue: Fish use these body parts to breathe underwater.

A. What are lungs?

B. What are gills?

C. What is skin? 

B. What are gills?

500

Weathering

Clue: Plant roots breaking rocks apart over time is an example of this process

.A. What is erosion?

B. What is deposition?

C. What is physical weathering? 

C. What is physical weathering?

500

Scientific Practices

Clue: Designing investigations and collecting data is part of this science category.

A. What are Disciplinary Core Ideas?

B. What are Crosscutting Concepts?

C. What are Science and Engineering Practices? 

C. What are Science and Engineering Practices?

500

Clue: This word describes breaking rocks apart without moving them to a new place.

A. What is erosion?
B. What is physical weathering?
C. What is deposition?

B. What is physical weathering?

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