Science 1
What does a scientist do to answer a testable question?
Design an Experiment/Test
This is a push or a pull in science
What is force?
What are inferences?
Making observations involves ....
using your five senses.
This is the thing that you measure in an experiment
What is a dependent variable?
What is a prediction that includes an explanation?
Hypothesis
This is the fifth planet from the sun
What is Jupiter?
How does light travel?
What is a straight line?
Plants that make their own food.
What are Producers?
Worms, maggots, and bacteria are know as this
What are decomposers?
What is one difference between the inner and outer planets?
Inner planets are closer to the Sun, smaller in size, and usually made of rock; outer planets are farther away, larger in size, and usually gaseous.
This is the process called when leaves on trees use sunlight for energy
What is Photosynthesis?
name at least 2 forms of energy
What is Mechanical energy
Electrical energy
Light energy
Thermal energy
Sound energy
Consumers
The sun rises in this direction
What is the east?
What does the Earth revolve around?
the Sun
Can sound travel through the "nothingness" of space? Why or Why not?
No, sound needs particles to travel through (vibrate).
This is how long it takes for the Earth to orbit around the Sun
What is 365 Days?
Carnivores eat this
What is meat?
the bending of light
What is refraction?
This is how long it takes for the Earth to rotate once.
24 hours
the largest AND smallest planet in our solar system
What is Mercury and Jupiter?
All sound is caused by __________.
Organisms that only eat plant.
Herbivore?
The number of days does it takes for the lunar (moon) cycle?
What is about 27 days or a month?
Give an example of a predator and prey relationship.
Fox and a rabbit.
Why do the moon and stars appear to change position?
Earth's rotation (the Earth spins on its axis)
This is the force that acts against motion.
Friction
When light reflects, does it bend or bounce?
bounce!
T or F - Planets closer to the sun orbit faster than planets farther away.
True
What is the sun?
A star
What is the reason for all investigations and experiments?
There is a QUESTION!
What breaks down dead organic matter in an ecosystem?
decomposers
The variable that CHANGES AS A RESULT in an experiment
What is dependent variable
________ light can be separated into a rainbow of colors.
White light
This is the path that one object takes around another object
What is revolution?
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
Food webs consist of many food chains. A food chaain shows the flow of energy in one single path. Both show the energy flow within an ecosystem.
What does an omnivore eat?
plants and meat
What happens when light hits water?
It slows down and refracts.
What are the 8 planets in order?
What is Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune