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The Nature of Science
Hodge Podge
100

Denver is experiencing this type of front.

What is warm front?

100

This will be the type of weather Boise has the next day.

What is colder temperatures and possible thunderstorms with the low pressure system. 

100

Environmental changes may lead to the evolution of a species.  Polar bears live in the Arctic.  Ice in the Arctic is melting fast, reducing the range where the polar bear can live.  If polar bears do not have adaptations that allow them to survive these changes, this may happen to them.


What is extinction?

100

The function of structure D is

What is the control center for the cell?

100

An example of what kind of bond is NaCl.


What is ionic bond?

100

Metal, Nonmetal, or Metalloid?

1. Boron

2. Aluminum

3. Neon


1. Metalloid

2. Metal

3. Nonmetal

100

This is an example of replication.

What is another scientist conducting an experiment using same methods as the original scientist?

100

What energy transformations occur when you turn on a flash light?


Chemical > Electrical > Light (and Heat)

200

Describe the weather in new york.

What is snowing/raining and cold temperatures.

200

The following is an example of what kind of weathering.


What is chemical weathering?

200

If there was 100% energy at the bottom of the food pyramid, this is how much energy would be at the carnivore level.



What is .1%?

200

These are ways human have a harmful impact on the environment. 

What are pollution, burning fossil fuels, deforestation, etc.?

200

Andrew exerts 56 J of force to move a box 6 meters. How much force was applied to the ball?


14 Newtons

200

An oven uses 8,000 Joules of Energy every 10 seconds, what is the power of the oven?


800 Watts

200

The same scientist repeats his experiment several times.

What is repetition?

200

The location of electrons


What is shells/orbitals/energy levels?

300
This is considered to be known as a universal solvent.

What is water?

Bonus *150*: Why is it known as a universal solvent?

300
These are some ways of physical weathering.

What is abrasion, freezing and thawing, heat expansion, animals burrowing/burying, etc.

300

The process by which populations of organisms with variations that help them survive in their environments live longer, compete better, and reproduce more than those that do not have the variations

What is natural selection?

300

Human arm and leg compared to a dog leg and paw, bird wing, and whale flipper

What are homologous structures?



300

Sound waves travel faster as the temperature ___.


What is increases (gets hotter, etc)?

300

Mechanical waves travel fastest in ____, and slowest in ____.


What are solids and gases (has to be that order).

300

Botanists study plants.  Chemists study matter and its interactions.  Volcanologists study volcanoes.  This is one way these fields of study are connected to one another.

What is they all gather information to answer questions about the natural world?



300

This theory describes the behavior of matter as a result of particles in motion. (No abbreviations!)


What is Kinetic Molecular Theory?

400

This type of season is represented by Number 4?


What is the winter solstice?
400

This is what type of eclipse.


What is solar eclipse?

400

The phase in which the nuclear membrane reappears and the process in which the cytoplasm divides evenly into two daughter cells.

What is telophase and cytokinesis?

400

These animals would be considered secondary consumers.


What are the foxes, owls, and birds?

400

What is the density of an object with a mass of 40g and a volume of 8 mL?


What is 5 g/mL?

400

The density of the following object is _______ g/mL.

Mass= 45g



What is 3?

400

A group of marine biologists are studying how harmful compounds released during an oil spill make their way through the marine food chain. 

ACTIONS PERFORMED BY MARINE BIOLOGISTS

1. Hypothesize how compounds released during an oil spill go through the food chain.

2. Compare the levels of toxic  compounds in marine life collected in the current study to previous studies.

3. Draw conclusions from the data analysis.

4. Measure the levels of toxic compounds in marine life.

This is the correct order for these steps.

What is 1, 4, 2, 3?

400

The number of protons in an element with a mass of 152 and 89 neutrons


What is 63?

500

The following is a picture of what type of tide?


What is spring tide?

Bonus *200*: Name moon phases for this kind of tide.

500

Number 3 is what season.


What is autumnal equinox?

500

The diffusion of water molecules through a membrane.

What is osmosis?

500

These are three structures that plant cells have that animal cells do not have.

What are the cell wall, large vacuole, and chloroplasts?

500

How many atoms of there are of Magnesium, Oxygen, and hydrogen, Mg(OH)2?


Magnesium-1

Oxygen-2

Hydrogen-2

500

This is how many valence electrons there are in the atom.

What are 2?

Bonus*250* How do we calculate valence electrons?

500

This is the difference between a theory and a law in science.

What is a theory explains a natural event, while a law describes it?

500

This state of matter has particles that are vibrating in place.

This state of matter takes the shape of its container but has a definite volume.

This state of matter is highly compressible.



What is Solid, Liquid, and Gas?

600

This phase of the moon is labeled as Number 2.


What is waning gibbous?

600

This image is of what type of eclipse.


What is lunar eclipse?

600

This structure will tell you if a cell is from a plant and not an animal.

What is a chloroplast?


600

These are two organ systems in the human body that help bring oxygen to the body cells and remove carbon dioxide from the body.

What are the respiratory and circulatory systems?

600

How many atoms are there total in this chemical formula, (NH4)3PO4?


What is 20 atoms?

600

Would an element be more reactive if it is one away from completing its outer energy shell or if it is three away from completing its outer energy shell?


What is one away?

600

A student performs an investigation and titles her report: The Effect the Amount of Rain has on the Clarity of Well Water.  The tested variable (independent variable) is

What is the amount of rainfall?

600

Identify the image formed by concave, convex, and plane mirror. 





700

This type of moon phase is represented by number 6.

What is waxing crescent?

700

This is the correct order for levels of organization in organisms (Organ System, Organ, Organism, Cell, Tissue).

What is Cell, Tissue, Organ, Organ System, Organism?

700

Reproduction is how organisms pass on their genes.  While some organisms reproduce only sexually or asexually, there are many that do both.  This type of organisms only reproduces asexually.

What is bacteria?

700

You are investigating whether robins prefer one type of bird seed over any other type.  This is the outcome variable (dependent variable).

What is The number of robins visiting your feeder?

700

The primary difference between sexual and asexual reproduction.

What is sexual reproduction produces more genetic variation.

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