Light/Human Eye
Tiny packets of energy that make up light.
What are photons?
This substance is made in the leaves by the process of photosynthesis.
What is sugar or glucose?
A powerful push or pull that causes an object to move or change their motion.
What is force?
Good scientists are constantly making ____ about the world around them.
What are observations?
Sound _____ are vibrating molecules traveling through the air to your eardrums.
What are waves?
This is the "boss" of the central nervous system.
What is the brain?
These are the two gases exchanged in the human lungs producing respiration.
What are oxygen and carbon dioxide?
Fireflies are an example of animals that create light through this chemical process
What is bioluminescence?
Name the vital plant organ located under the soil that absorbs nutrients.
What is the root?
This is a force that opposes motion or attempted motion of one object past another.
What is friction?
This is the type of data that is descriptive but not tied to numbers.
What is Qualitative data?
Sound does not travel in a vacuum because of this reason.
What is there is no matter?
These are automatic, involuntary responses that occur in response to a stimulus.
What are reflexes?
This part of our body is like a filter for the air we breathe.
What is the nose?
A straw looking “broken” in a glass of water is an example of this effect.
What is refraction?
These TWO tubes are the transport system inside the stem of the plant.
What are the Xylem and Phloem?
An object in motion tends to stay in motion unless a force acts upon it and an object at rest will stay at rest unless a force acts upon it.
What is Newton's First Law of Motion also known as inertia?
This is the constant part of an experiment, it does not change.
What is the control?
The tiny piece of skin that separates the outer ear from the middle ear.
What is the eardrum?
This is a mixture of water and enzymes our body produces to START the digestion process.
What is saliva?
This is the "windpipe" or tube that air travels through down into our lungs.
What is the trachea?
This colored part of the eye controls the size of the pupil.
What is the iris?
Reason that trees drop their leaves in the fall.
Days shorten, less sunlight, conserve energy.
This happens when you bring the opposite poles of a magnet together.
What is attraction?
This is the part of the experiment that changes.
What is the independent variable?
This is the nerve that carries information about sound to our brain.
What is the auditory nerve?
This is the longest part of our digestive system at 22 feet.
What is the small intestine?
These set of bones protects our lungs and other organs in our chest cavity.
What is the ribcage?
This nerve carries visual signals from the retina to the brain.
What is the optic nerve?
Pigment responsible for green color in leaves.
What is chlorophyll?
Isaac Newton believed God wrote two books, name them.
The Bible and Nature.
This is the testable statement or prediction that reflects the question asked by the scientist.
What is the hypothesis?
When jets break the sound barrier, we hear this sound.
What is a sonic boom?
This is the 5 ft long part of our digestive system that absorbs nutrients and water.
What is the large intestine?
This is the muscle, located below the lungs is responsible for helping us inhale and exhale.
What is the diaphragm?