Nature of Science
Life Science
Earth Science
Space Science
Physical Science
100
To have more than one trial in any experiment.
What is scientific repetition.
100
Food chain
What is the sequence of who eats whom in a biological community (an ecosystem) to obtain nutrition.
100
Glaciers
What is the location of most of earth's fresh water?
100
A large collection of stars, gasses and dust
What is a galaxy?
100
Solid
What is the state of matter that has the least amount of space between atoms?
200
Writing specific procedures in an investigation so other scientists can follow exactly what was done.
What is replication?
200
Producers
What is the name given to living organisms that make their own food by using energy from the sun?
200
Humidity
What is the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere?
200
The sun
What produces most of the heat and light in our solar system?
200
Law of Conservation of Matter
What is the law that states matter can never be created or destroyed, only changes in form?
300
Independent variable
What is the only variable that changes in an experiment?
300
Larvae (caterpillar)
What is is the long, worm-like stage of the butterfly or moth?
300
Water Cycle
What is the path water takes as it is being cycled through the environment?
300
The inner planets revolve faster than the outer planets.
What is one difference between the inner and outer planets?
300
Heat
What is energy that transfers between substances because of a temperature difference between the substances?
400
Constant variables
What are the variables that MUST remain the same in an experiment?
400
Chlorophyll
What is the substance in a plants leaves, that allow it to make its own food?
400
Igneous
What is a type of rock that forms from molten or partly molten material that cools and hardens?
400
Axis
What is the imaginary line on which an object rotates ?
400
Chemical change
What is a change in a substance where the properties are completely different than the original substance?
500
Dependent variable
How do scientists measure their experiment?
500
brain and spinal chord
What are two main organs of the skeletal system?
500
Erosion
What is the wearing away of Earth’s surface by the breakdown and transportation of rock and soil?
500
Solar system
What is a star and all the planets and other bodies that orbit it?
500
Light
What is electromagnetic radiation that lies within the visible range?
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