Solar System
What are the four terrestrial planets?
Earth, Mars, Mercury, Venus
What are four types of precipitation?
rain, snow, sleet, hail
What kind of circuit has a light bulb on?
A closed circuit
What do the arrows in a food web show?
The flow of energy
If ____________, then __________________. In order to correctly fill in this hypothesis, what should go in the first blank?
The independent variable
Give one example of rotation
The earth rotations on its axis
What type of cloud do you see before a thunderstorm?
Cumulonimbus
An iron changes energy from electrical to---
thermal
A producer
Sami wants to know how the surface of a ramp effects the speed of a car. He covers 3 identical ramps with three different materials-- sandpaper, wax paper, and grass. What is the dependent variable?
What two things cause the seasons?
The earth revolving around the sun and the earth's axial tilt
What happens at a warm front?
Rain/snow for a long period of time
Lightening is an example of what type of electricity?
static
What is a consumer?
Anything that eats something else for energy-- it can be a plant or an animal
Leo wants to see how plant food effects the growth of a plant. List three things that should stay constant in his experiment.
Type of plant, location of plant, container of plant, soil of plant, time plant has to grow, time plant is fed, how often the plants are fed.
List two examples of revolution
The earth goes around the sun and the moon goes around the earth
What happens at a cold front?
Violent weather like thunderstorms and tornadoes
A fan changes electrical energy to--
mechanical energy
What is a niche?
I will go to the zoo is a _______
observation, prediction, conclusion or inference?
prediction
What is the order of the planets from smallest to largest?
Mercury Mars Venus Earth Neptune Uranus Saturn Jupiter
What tool would best be used to measure the temperature of an area?
What type of circuit has multiple pathways?
A parallel circuit
Do wolves live in Virginia?
No
Tyler wants to know how the size of the ball effects how far he can kick the ball. What is the independent variable in this experiment?
The size of the ball