Measurements
Vocabulary
Short Answer
Solar System
100
Equation to find area
What is base x height (two lengths)
100
The measure of how much surface an object has
What is area
100
Is Earth a star, why/why not. List two reasons.
What is no, because earth is made of rock and does not produce energy
100
Number of planets
What is 8
200
The formula to find volume
What is length x width x height
200
Solar System
What is the sun and all objects that orbit the sun under its gravitational influence
200
Number of stars in our solar system. Name it/them.
What is one, the sun
200
largest of non-star celestial objects that independently revolve around a star
What is a planet
300
Formulas for Density
What is mass/volume
300
Definition of Density
What is the measure of how closely packed the particles in a substance are
300
Difference between revolving and rotation
What is going around an object, what is moving in a circlular motion on fixed point
300
Name the eight planets
What is mercury, venus, earth, mars, jupiter, saturn, uranus, neptune
400
When to use Water Displacement method
To find volume of irregular objects
400
A collection of billions of stars and various amounts of gas and dust held together by gravity
What is a Galaxy
400
Different characteristics between an object that is less dense and more dense.
What is spread particles like in a gas, and more compact(close) particles in a solid
400
List the following celestial objects in increasing order: Milky Way Galaxy, sun, solar system, universe
What is sun, solar system, milky way galaxy, universe
500
Water Displacement Method formula
Initial volume of water subtracted from the volume of water after object is entered
500
Differences in Meteoroid, Meteor, Meteorite
What is a very small solid fragments that orbit the sun, a streak of light produced as a meteoroid burns due to friction within Earth's atmosphere, a meteoroid that lands on Earth's surface
500
An object is cut into five pieces, do the pieces change density. Explain why.
What is no, because the object is still made up of the same stuff(ingredients, substance, material)
500
List the planets in order of decreasing distance from the sun.
What is neptune, uranus, saturn, jupiter, mars, earth, venus, mercury
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