Make an observation, ask a question, form a hypothesis, test the hypothesis, analyze results, draw conclusions, communicate results.
What are the Steps of the Scientific Method?
100
The smallest unit of an element that maintains the properties of the element
What is an atom?
100
The San Andreas fault in an example of this type of plate boundary.
What is a transform fault?
100
These "guys" get a bad reputation since they can make you sick...but without them we wouldn't be able to digest our food - or even have foods like cheese and yogurt.
What are bacteria?
100
The name of the penguin boat created by Triantyfylou.
What is Proteus?
200
Crystals, Cylinders, Spheres, and Spacecrafts.
What are the four main shapes of viruses?
200
A substance that cannot be broken down or separated by chemical or physical means.
What is an element?
200
Earthquakes are measured by these scales.
What is the Modified Mercalli Scale or the Richter Scale?
200
Bacteria that cause illness.
What are pathogenic bacteria?
200
Famous volcanologists that have seen more volcanoes than any other human being; they lived in France three months out of the year.
Who are Maurice and Katia Krafft?
300
Fancy term for spherical shaped bacteria.
What are cocci?
300
A form of matter that has no definite volume and no definite shape.
What is a gas?
300
Made in nature, have crystalline structures, are solids, made of nonliving materials.
What is a mineral?
300
Have cells, sense and respond to change, reproduce, have DNA, use energy, grow and develop.
What are the characteristics of living things?
300
Diamonds and Graphite are made out of this element.
What is Carbon?
400
An organism that cannot make it's own food.
What is a heterotroph or consumer?
400
A subatomic particle that has a negative charge.
What is an electron?
400
A shield, a cinder cone, a composite.
What are the three main types of volcanoes?
400
A fancy term for "rod shaped" bacteria.
What is bacilli?
400
Shows the number of protons and electrons that an element has.
What is the atomic number?
500
The missing Kingdom: Plants, Animals, Bacteria, Fungus....Responsible for the sickness Malaria and the Irish Potato Famine.
What are Protists?
500
A substance made up of two or more elements.
What is a compound?
500
The perimeter around the Pacific Plate is given this slang term....also a Johnny Cash song.
What is The Ring of Fire?
500
An organism that does not have a nucleus.
What is a prokaryote?
500
An object in motion tends to stay in motion; an object at rest tends to stay at rest.