Force and Motion
Scientific Inquiry
Matter and Energy
Solar System
Miscellaneous
100
Isaac Newton stated three Laws of Motion, the first of which said this.
What is "An object at rest will remain at rest unless a force acts upon it while an object in motion will remain in motion unless a force acts upon it.
100
In an experiment, it's the variable that changes.
What is the independent variable?
100
A material that blocks the flow of electrons is called this
What is an insulator?
100
These are the names of the four "rocky" or "inner" planets.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
100
This is the name for an organism that makes its own food.
What is a producer
200
This force causes heat and slows or stops a moving object.
What is friction?
200
In an experiment, it's the variable that is measured.
What is the dependent variable?
200
A material that allows the flow of electrons through it is called this.
What is a conductor?
200
Most asteroids in our solar system are located between these two planets.
What Mars and Jupiter?
200
This is the movement of soil and rock by wind, water, and ice.
What is erosion.
300
Simple machines do not reduce the amount of work, but they do reduce this while increasing this.
What are effort and distance?
300
This statement shows cause and effect and is always written with "if/then".
What is a hypothesis
300
From these materials, these two would be insulators: copper wire; plastic; aluminum; cobalt; steel; rubber.
What are plastic and rubber?
300
Earth completes one of these every 24 hours and one of these every 365 days.
What are orbit and revolution?
300
This weather instrument measures atmospheric air pressure.
What is a barometer?
400
If an object was pushed along a strip of ice and a stretch of sand then the object would encounter the greater friction on this one.
What is sand?
400
Sam wants to see if adding fertilizer to soil will make his plants grow taller. This would be the independent variable.
What is the fertilizer?
400
This circuit has only one path.
What is a series circuit?
400
This planet's day is longer than its year.
What is Mercury?
400
These are the four parts of the water cycle.
What are evaporation, condensation, precipitation and runoff?
500
This scientific instrument measures force in Newtons.
What is a spring scale?
500
This would be a good hypothesis for the following: Sam wants to see if adding fertilizer to the soil will make his plants grow taller.
What is, "If fertilizer is added to soil, then the plant in that soil will grow taller than it would without fertilizer."
500
This is the greatest source of light and heat energy in the solar system.
What is the Sun?
500
If a shadow is long and pointing to the west, it would be this time of day.
What is morning?
500
Evaporation is the process of water turning into this state of matter.
What is a gas?
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