Often called the father of the life sciences. He was the first to develop a classification system.
Aristotle
100
A good experiment must solve a ______________.
What is a problem?
100
This document has more known copies than any other document in history.
What is the Bible?
100
A pair of scissors is made of these 2 simple machines.
lever and wedge
100
This layer is going to have the oldest fossils.
What is the bottom or lowest layer?
200
Known for his Theory of Evolution. He also took a boat trip to the Gallapogos Islands
Charles Darwin
200
This is the variable that is tested during an experiment.
What is a manipulated(independent) variable?
200
This age can be determined when a date is found on an artifact.
What is the known age?
200
The term that explains why it is easier to use an inclined plane compare to lifting an object, even though it requires the same amount of work.
What is the "force-distance" trade-off?
200
These objects hang from the ceilings of many caves. They are caused by mineral-rich water dripping through the rock above the cave.
What are stalactites?
300
He is credited for inventing calculus and describing the 3 Laws of Motion.
Who Isaac Newton?
300
_____________ is the number of responding variables that an experiment should have.
What is 1?
300
The item most likely to be studied by a dendrochronologist.
What is a tree?
300
The mechanical advantage of a ramp that is 30 meters long and 10 meters high.
What is 3?
300
This is the underlying assumption of the Law of Superposition.
What is the idea that items found in a lower layer of soil are older?
400
This was the main goal of alchemists.
What is turning elements into gold?
400
This property of matter determines why some objects float and others sink.
What is density?
400
Why a crumpled piece of paper falls faster than a flat sheet of paper.
What is air resistance?
400
The six simple machines.
What are lever, inclined plane, wedge, pulley, screw, wheel and axle?
400
The view that most of earth's geological features are the result of slow, gradual processes that have been at work for millions of years
What is uniformitarianism?
500
A book was written in 1543 by Copernicus to describe this view of our solar system.
What is the heliocentric view...that the sun is at the center of our solar system?
500
This term explains how a paper clip can "float" on the top of water when carefully placed.
What is surface tension?
500
The use of several copies of document made by different sources can enable the document to pass this test which would allow the document to be considered authentic.
What is bibliographic test?
500
The mechanical advantage of a lever with an input arm that is 40 cm and an output arm that is 10 cm.
What is 4?
500
Fossils are almost always found in this type of rock.