Forces and Motion
This force causes objects to slow down.
What is friction?
Jodie sees a cloud that is light, wispy, and high in the sky. It is a beautiful sunny day. What kind of cloud does she see?
What is a cirrus cloud?
In this ecosystem, trees lose their leaves and change color in fall. Some animals that live here are deer, birds, and squirrels. What ecosystem is this?
What is a deciduous forest?
I burned my hand on the stove. What is to blame for this happening? What form of heat transfer?
What is conduction?
If you are looking at a graph of distance over time (speed), what does a increase in speed look like? What does stopped motion look like?
What is / ? What is ---- ?
Michael notices that the air pressure is increasing. What instrument is he using and what kind of weather can he expect?
What is a barometer and sunny weather?
These animals pick off of dead animals, but they don't return the nutrients to the soil. A vulture is an example of one. What are these animals called?
What are scavengers?
People use plastic handles on kitchen tools because they are good ________________ of heat.
What is insulators?
Which force causes an apple to fall to the Earth?
What is gravity?
Meteorologists say that there is a cold front coming in from the west. What kind of weather can we expect from a cold front?
What is thunderstorms, stormy weather, colder weather, etc.?
In this food chain, who is the primary producer? sun -> grass -> rabbit ->hawk
What is the grass?
What happens to water vapor during condensation?
What is it loses heat energy?
If a car traveled 144 miles in 3 hours, what was the speed of the car? REMEMBER: Speed = distance / time.
What is 48 miles per hour?
Juan notices that the water in the Pacific Ocean is getting warmer than usual. Fish are dying near his home in Panama and there is more rain. What might Juan be experiencing?
What is an El Nino?
What is so special about an estuary ecosystem?
What is it contains fresh and saltwater.
What does acceleration look like on a distance/time graph?
What is a curved line?
Suzan lives in Wilmington, NC. She lives on the beach and she notices that the weather is always warm and moist. The water is also warm. What in the ocean causes the weather to be like this?
What is the Gulf Stream?
What would happen to the deer population if there was a drought and no plants could grow? What would happen if there was an abundance of grass? What would happen to the deer? How about the bears?
What is the population would decrease? The population would increase, so the bears would thrive.
This structure connects the mouth to the stomach.
What is the esophagus?