Water Cycle
This process adds water into the soil, helping plants and underground water.
What is infiltration?
At which boundary do volcanoes commonly form due to subduction?
What is a convergent boundary?
This is the main type of heat transfer from the sun to Earth.
What is radiation?
If Object A is small and Object B is large, and both feel the same force, which one accelerates more?
What is Object A?
What does the "Prepare" step of the problem-solving process involve?
Making a plan or designing a solution.
This type of variable must stay the same to keep an experiment fair.
What is a controlled variable?
What two parts of the water cycle involve the state of water changing from gas to liquid and then to solid?
What are condensation and precipitation (or freezing)?
Earth’s plates float on this layer of hot, slow-moving rock.
What is the mantle?
In a pot of boiling water, heat rises in circular patterns. This is called:
What is convection?
Two kids of the same mass push off each other while on roller skates. They move in opposite directions at equal speed. Why?
Because of Newton’s 3rd Law.
In an app, this compares values and makes decisions.
What is processing?
If a student writes, “If I add more fertilizer, then the plant will grow faster,” what part is the because missing from?
What is the hypothesis?
Why is the sun considered the driving force of the water cycle?
Because it provides the energy for evaporation.
Why does one plate sink below another during subduction?
Because it is more dense.
What makes metal a better conductor than foam?
It has tightly packed particles that transfer heat more efficiently.
If a lighter object bounces back more after a collision, what does this show about force?
That both objects felt the same force, but the lighter one changed motion more because of it's smaller mass.
This type of data should usually be stored so the app remembers it for next time.
What is user preference or score?
This type of data includes descriptions like “blue,” “rough,” or “smells sweet.”
What is qualitative data?
Paving over land reduces this important step of the water cycle.
What is infiltration?
These two natural disasters are most directly caused by plate movement.
What are earthquakes and volcanoes?
A thick jacket keeps you warm by trapping air. What is this air acting as?
What is an insulator?
This measurement is calculated using mass and speed.
What is momentum?
In the Movie Picker app, genre selection is input. Saving a favorite is this.
What is storage?
Why is it important to test only one independent variable at a time?
So you know what caused the change in the experiment.
Name all six major parts of the water cycle in order.
What are evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection, infiltration, transpiration?
Explain what happens when a continental plate and an oceanic plate converge.
The oceanic plate subducts beneath the continental plate, often forming volcanoes and trenches.
This is the reason why your feet feel cold when you step on a tile floor, even though it’s the same temperature as a carpeted floor.
What is tile being a better conductor of heat than carpet?
In a crash test, explain how seatbelts use Newton’s 3rd Law to protect people.
The car stops, and the seatbelt applies an equal and opposite force to stop your body from continuing forward.
xsoccer ball and a bowling ball are hit with the same force. The soccer ball moves much farther. Why?
What is the soccer ball having less mass, so it accelerates more with the same force?
List the full scientific method in the correct order.
What is: Ask a question, do research, form a hypothesis, test it, analyze data, draw conclusions, and communicate results?