Space
Body Systems
Energy
Weather & Climate
Earth Science
100
Earth is found in this galaxy.
a. Andromeda
b. Crab Nebula
c. Orion
d. The Milky Way
What is the Milky Way?
100
This organ of a species works most like a human skeleton...
a. a polar bear's fur
b. a giraffe's neck
c. a lobster's shell
d. A fish's scales
What is a lobster's shell?
100
These forms of energy are produced when a candle is burning
a. heat and light
b. light and mechanical
c. mechanical and heat
d. sound and light
What is heat and light?
100
The correct order of the stages of the water cycle...
a. runoff, precipitation, evaporation, condensation
b. condensation, evaporation, precipitation, runoff
c. evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff
d. evaporation, condensation, runoff, precipitation
What is evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff?
100
A 10-meter high sand dune forms in a desert. It is most likely caused by this....
a. changing tides
b. chemical weathering
c. erosion by wind
d. intense flooding
What is erosion by wind?
200
This illustration represents...
a. asteroid belt
b. galaxy
c. solar system
d. star
What is a solar system?
200
This animal species has a life cycle that compare most closely to that of Florida Key deer?
a. a crocodile
b. a loggerhead turtle
c. a manatee
d. a wood stork
What is a manatee?
200
This is an example of kinetic energy...
a. a soccer ball lying on the grass
b. a swing hanging from a tree branch
c. a car parked in a driveway
d. a tennis ball bouncing against a wall
What is a tennis ball bouncing against a wall?
200
A map showing air temperatures and a warm front is used for...
a. to record precipitation
b. to track a hurricane
c. to change the weather
d. to predict the weather in a city
What is to predict the weather in a city?
200
This pysical property would best help determine which sample of minerals contains iron...
a. magnetism
b. particle size
c. shape
d. streak
What is magnetism?
300
This object in a solar system orbits a planet
a. asteroid
b. comet
c. meteor
d. moon
What is a moon?
300
The function of these organs in the human body is
a. intake of oxygen and removal of waste gas from the body
b. processing and use of nutrients from food
c. allowing motion of arms and legs
d. experience of the five senses
What is intake of oxygen and removal of waste gas from the body.
300
a campfire burns and leaves ash behind. This causes the ash...
a. a chemical change
b. a physical change
c. a chemical property
d. a physical property
What is a chemical change?
300
This step in the water cycle represents water changing from liquid to gas...
a. evaporation
b. condensation
c. precipitation
d. runoff
What is evaporation?
300
This is the amount of matter in a solid, liquid, or gas...
a. mass
b. temperature
c. texture
d. volume
What is mass?
400
This model best represents Earth's movement that results in what we know as day and night...
a. a skier going down a mountain
b. an ice skater spinning in a tight circle
c. a tennis ball hit by a racket
d. an arrow shot through the air
What is an ice skater spinning in a tight circle?
400
This structure functions to protect an organism within its environment...
a. beak shape on a flamingo
b. eye color of a panther
c. quills on a porcupine
d. tail on a cat
What is quills on a porcupine?
400
The types of energy we get from the sun are...
a. chemical and heat
b. heat and light
c. light and electric
d. light and mechanical
What is heat and light?
400
This is the measure of moisture in the air...
a. temperature
b. condensation
c. barometric pressure
d. humidity
What is humidity?
400
This is not an example of natural erosion...
a. a garden hose washing dirt down a driveway
b. rain falling on a grassy field
c. waves moving sand on a beach
d. a rock rolling down a hill
What is a garden hose washing dirt down a driveway?
500
This event occurs after one complete rotation of the Earth...
a. a change from one day to the next day
b. a change from one month to another month
c. a change of summer to fall
d. a change from one year to the next year
What is a change from one day to the next day?
500
This is most like the movement of blood in a human being...
a. heat from the sun warms an alligator, and that warmth spreads throughout the body.
b. water enters gills of a fish, and oxygen is taken out of the water
c. food is eaten by a bear, and the nutrients are used in all muscle structures
d. water enters plant roots and travels through the stem and leaves
What is water enters plant roots and travels through the stem and leaves.
500
This what happens to light when it hits a mirror...
a. reflection
b. refraction
c. absorption
d. transition
What is reflection?
500
This is a climate that is hot and rainy...
a. artic
b. temperate
c. tropical
d. desert
What is tropical?
500
This imaginary line runs east and west along the globe...
a. Greenwich time line
b. international dateline
c. equator
d. prime meridian
What is the equator?