Physical Science
The three primary states of matter?
What is Solid, Liquid, and Gas?
A turtle eating the leaf from a plant is a __________________ interaction.
What is a living and living?
The dropping off of sediment in a new location.
What is deposition?
The sun is a star that appears larger and brighter than other stars because it is _______________.
What is closer to the Earth than the other stars?
What is the independent variable?
Something that slows or stops the flow of energy.
What is an insulator?
This scientific process is how plants take matter that is not food (light, carbon dioxide, and water,) and turn it into food.
What is photosynthesis?
The breaking down of large rocks.
What is weathering?
The third planet from the sun.
What is Earth?
A testable statement that a scientist makes before the testing phase of an experiment or study.
What is a hypothesis?
A characteristic of matter that can be changed without changing the substance itself. (cutting paper or melting an ice cube)
What is a physical property?
An organism that processes sunlight, stores its energy in its body and passes that energy on to other organisms.
What is (Producers) plants?
Most of the Earth's water is found here.
What are the oceans?
The spinning or turning of an object on its axis. It takes Earth 24 hours/1 day to complete.
What is rotation?
A statement made at the end of an experiment that explains what the scientist learned.
What is a conclusion?
The ability of something to be dissolved.
What is solubility?
This process eventually restores (recycles) some materials back to the soil after a plant or animal's death. (an organism such as a mushroom does this)
What is decomposition?
A type of rock where most fossils are found.
What is sedimentary rock?
The imaginary line that passes through Earth's center and its North and South Poles.
What is an axis?
The use of the five senses and sometimes tools to collect data.
What is an observation?
The material or "stuff" that everything is made of. Anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
Producers draw water and __________ from the soil through its roots.
What are nutrients?
The type of rock that comes from a volcanic eruption.
What is igneous rock?
The force that pulls objects toward each other.
What is gravity?
An explanation for an observation that you have made.
What is an inference?