The pitch of a sound is determined by_______
A) the frequency of the vibrations
B) the amplitude of the vibrations
C) the size of the individual vibrations
D) the kind of energy creating the vibrations
What is the frequency of the vibrations (A)
100
The three parts of the water cycle are ______, _______, and _______.
What are evaporation, condensation, and precipitation
100
Our solar system has a total of 8 planets. The four closest planets to the sun are ______, ______, _______, and ______,
What is Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Earth
100
The three states of matter are ______, _______, and ______.
What are solid, liquid and gas
100
Janet checked a mineral for a specific property. She used the Mohs scale. The property she was testing was _________
What is hardness
200
If you pluck a thick guitar string, the sound it makes is lower than if you pluck a very thin string. This happens because the thick string _________________.
A) is longer than the thin string
B) is shorter than the thin string
C) vibrates more slowly than the thin string
D) vibrates more quickly than the thin string
What is vibrates more slowly than the thin string (C)
200
If liquid is changing into a gas, then it is most likely the part of the water cycle called _____________.
What is evaporation
200
The sun is a _________
What is a star
200
A solid has______________
What is definite shape and volume
200
The BEST explanation for the pencil looking like it's bending in the glass of water is _________________.
A)the water is frozen
B) the pencil is broken
C)light is being reflected
D) light is being refracted
What is ight is being refracted (D)
300
A toaster converts electricity into what kind of energy?
What is heat and light energy
300
_______________ is when the gas turns into a liquid in the water cycle.
What is condensation
300
The stars appear to move across the sky, and the sun appears to rise in the east and set in the west because of___________.
What is the earth's rotation (24hours or 1 day)
300
Liquid has ______________________
What is definite volume, but no shape. It takes the shape of its container
300
Shanti is building a weather station in her back yard to measure rain and temperature in the month of July. The tools she would use to measure the temperature would be a _____________________.
A) a barometer B) a chronometer C) a thermometer
D) an anemometer
What is a thermometer
400
When an ice cube melts, the atoms __________
A) get larger
B) get smaller
C) start to move slower
D) start to move quicker
What is start to move quicker
400
In the water cycle, when water molecules get heavy and are ready to fall; it must be the part called _____________.
What is condensation
400
The earth traveling around the sun is called ________
What is revolution (one year or about 365 days
400
The difference between matter and mass is _________________________________
__________________________________
What is matter is anything that takes up space and has mass; and mass is the amount of matter there is in something.
400
The rubber handle on the metal pot is a very good _______,because heats does not travel through it well.
What is an insulator. The opposite is a conductor.
500
The energy transfer that happens when you turn on your flashlight is _________ energy turns to ______ energy.
A) electrical and sound
B) chemical to electrical
C) light and chemical
D) mechanical and chemical
What is chemical to electrical
500
Water can evaporate from sources in California and that water in gas form can eventually fall as rain in Boston because_____________________________
What is : the gas in the clouds move east across the United States and begins the process of condensation and then can fall as rain in Boston.
500
Rock that gets weathered and breaks into pieces becomes _________rock, rock that's put under heat and pressure is called ________rock, and rock that is melted and cooled is called _________ rock.
What is sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous
500
Randell said that atoms travel fastest in a solid. Sally said that atoms travel fastest in liquid. Allan said that gas has the fastest moving atoms. The truth is __________ is correct.
who is Allan
500
Look at page 9 on the handout on your desk.
A) describe the weather conditions in Florida
B) Give an approximate low temperature for norther Maine
C)What weather do you predict for Boston is one or two days?
What is :
A) Rain
B) 32 degrees F or below
C) rain (because the weather systems move west to east