Life Science
What is the process plants use to make their own food using sunlight?
What is photosynthesis?
What is matter made of?
What are atoms?
What causes the seasons on Earth?
What is the tilt of Earth's axis?
What is the first step of the scientific method?
What is asking a question?
What does “ecosystem” mean?
What is a community of living and non-living things interacting together?
What is the main function of the cell membrane?
What is to control what enters and leaves the cell?
What is the difference between a physical change and a chemical change?
A physical change doesn’t form a new substance, but a chemical change does.
What are tectonic plates?
What are large pieces of Earth’s crust that move over time?
What is an educated guess or prediction?
What is a hypothesis?
What does “inference” mean in science?
What is a conclusion based on observations?
What are organisms that break down dead matter called?
What are decomposers?
What are the three states of matter?
What are solid, liquid, and gas?
What natural disaster is caused by the sudden movement of tectonic plates?
What is an earthquake?
What is the part of the experiment that stays the same called?
What is a constant?
Define “volume.”
What is the amount of space an object takes up?
What do you call a living thing that eats only plants?
What is an herbivore?
What do we call it when a solid turns directly into a gas?
What is sublimation?
What type of rock forms from cooling magma?
What is igneous rock?
Why is it important to have a control group?
To compare results and see the effect of the variable.
What does “density” mean?
What is the mass of an object divided by its volume?
What is biodiversity and why is it important?
What is the variety of life in an ecosystem, and it helps maintain ecosystem stability?
What happens to the motion of particles when thermal energy increases?
They move faster and spread apart.
What do we call the cycle that moves water through Earth's surface and atmosphere?
What is the water cycle?
What do scientists do after collecting data?
What is analyze and draw conclusions?
What does “adaptation” mean?
What is a trait that helps an organism survive in its environment?