The name of the structure that contains all the inherited information or genes. This structure looks like a spiraling ladder.
What is DNA?
100
This is the smallest unit of matter that cannot be broken down into smaller parts.
What is an atom or what is an element?
100
There is one satellite that orbits earth, it is known as _____________
What is the "moon"?
100
Scientists use this tool to determine that the temperature of the earth gets higher as you move closer to the core.
What is a thermometer?
100
The name of lava under the crust
What is "magma"
200
All the DNA in a human cell is found in 1 of 23 different ______________.
What are "chromosomes"?
200
Science does not describe something as having "cold". Instead science describes something as lacking _________.
What is "heat"?
200
The Milky Way galaxy is estimated to contain around ____________________ stars
What is a billion?
200
Solar panels capture energy from one form of heat transfer called _________________
What is radiation?
200
NaHCO3 is considered to be the ________________ of sodium bicarbonate
What is chemical formula?
300
Plant cells are different from animal cells because they have these
What are cells walls of chloroplasts?
Also, what is chlorophyll?
300
This is what happens to the particles of a substance when heat is added to that substance
What is, "particles move faster" "particles move apart" "particles change position" "particles gain kinetic energy"
300
The earth is separated into layers and just below the surface lies the hot convecting _______________.
What is the "mantle"?
300
A student uses an anemometer to measure wind speed on a windy day. The wind was moving from high pressure over the water to low pressure of the land. This wind pattern is the result of a heat transfer called ______________
What is convection?
300
This is the process that wears down the cliffs on Thompson Island
What is erosion
400
Based on the evidence from the bones of the flipper and wing, scientists believe the whale and the bat share a ___________________
What is a "common ancestor"?
400
When a nail is left outside for a while it develops an orange color. This is rust. This is an example of a ____________ change.
What is "chemical"?
400
When the earth is located between the sun and moon and this causes the moon to disappear, this is a ___________ eclipse. This occurs during the ___________ phase of the moon cycle.
What is "lunar" and "full moon"
400
When engineers do the engineering and design process, the phase where they build a small version of the solution is also called building a _____________
What is a prototype
400
On earth, your mass and weight are the same everywhere but on the moon, your ____________ changes.
What is weight?
500
The interaction between two different species of organism that results in the benefit of one or both of these species.
What is "symbiosis"?
500
A scientist combines oxygen and hydrogen to form water. This is evidence that water is an example of a ________________
Atom - Element - Mixture - Compound
What is a "compound"?
500
This layer of the earth has the greatest density
What is the inner core?
500
This is why companies have a research and development division of the company
What is to create, test and improve products
500
On June 21st, the Northern and Southern Hemisphere will experience _____________ amounts of sunlight. This is called the summer ____________.