A tuna is an ocean fish that is well adapted to catching small, fast-moving prey. Which of the following adaptations most helps a tuna swim fast to catch its prey?
A. large fins
B. sharp teeth
C. small gills
D. tough scales
What is large fins?
100
Owen tested a physical property of a mineral. He rubbed a mineral sample on a piece of white tile. The mineral left a red mark on the tile. He was trying to determine this property of minerals.
What is streak?
100
It takes approxiamately this amount of time for the Earth to orbit the sun
What is one year (365 1/4 days)?
100
The earth makes one full ______________ around the sun each year.
What is revolution?
200
Term for a material that allows electricity to travel through it
What is conductor?
200
Which of the following best represents
one particular stage in a life cycle?
A. a fish swimming
B. a seed sprouting
C. a leaf growing
D. a dog eating
What is B. a seed sprouting?
200
If a rock could be described as having very small grains of sand in different layers, it would probably be this type of rock.
In the water cycle, rain, snow, or sleet falling to the ground is a form of this.
What is precipitation?
300
A student hears the sound of a bell. This carries the sound of the bell to the student.
What is vibrating air?
300
Term for how plants use energy from sunlight.
What is photosynthesis? (when the make their own food)
300
The type of rock formed when hot lava cools.
What is igneous?
300
Judy observed a new moon in the sky on a Tuesday evening. She will need to wait this many days until she sees the next new moon.
What is 28 days?
300
The transformation process in which a caterpiller turns into a butterfly.
What metamorphosis?
400
Term for when a liquid changes to a solid.
What is freezing?
400
Many bacteria are decomposer
organisms, what is the reason why they connect the food chain.
They return the nutrients back into the soil in order to help the plants grow
400
These are frozen, slow-moving rivers of ice that can move about three feet per day down mountain valleys. As they travel, they scrape small particles off of rocks which later helps create new soil.
What is a glacier?
400
The reason why we have different seasons on Earth. The answer has two parts....
What is Earth orbits the sun and tilts on its axis?
400
In the engineering design process, the term used for the rough draft of a new technology being created.
What is prototype?
500
Term for what happens when you put two like poles near one another.
What is repel?
500
A behavior that an organism inherits (like a baby chick pecking out of its shell)
What is instinct?
500
A naturally occurring, nonliving solid that has a specific chemical makeup and a repeating structure. An example is most gemstones.
What is mineral?
500
The reason why stars and the sun appear to move across the Earth's sky.
What is the Earth is rotating on its axis?
500
The process for moving sediment by wind, moving water, or ice.