Trees and Forests
Evidence and Investigation
Flight
Sky Science
Air and Aerodynamics
100
This layer is home to many small trees, bushes, and shrubs. It provides shelter for many forest animals.
What is the understory?
100
This is a type of fingerprint.
What is arch, whorl, or loop.
100
These are the two main types of things that generate thrust on a plane.
What is the jet engine or the propeller.
100
This is the phase of the moon where only a crescent is missing (not illuminated).
What is gibbous.
100
Air moves from _____ to ______ pressure.
What is high to low.
200
These are the living things that eat producers.
What are consumers?
200
To determine where a person or animal was headed by looking at their footprints, what observation would you make?
What is the direction of the footprint?
200
This is how hot air balloons generate lift.
What is hot air is less dense and rises?
200
This word means "getting larger" when referring to moon phases.
What is waxing?
200
This is Bernoulli's principle.
What is faster moving air creates an area of low pressure?
300
Spruce and pine trees are examples of this type of tree.
What is a coniferous tree?
300
Fingerprints are useful, what is their major downfall in finding a suspect?
What is the requirement to match them with someone's in a database.
300
This is the movement of the plane made by the flaps.
What is roll?
300
This is the name for the 2 days of year when daylight and darkness are equal.
What is the equinox?
300
This is how you could describe the particles of air in a hot air balloon that is flying?
What are far apart?
400
This type of tree sheds its leaves, typically in the fall.
What is deciduous?
400
What are some specific letters that you would look at in a handwriting sample?
Many answers - teacher discretion.
400
This force is controlled by the elevators.
What is pitch?
400
These are the gas giants.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
400
These are the 5 properties of air.
What is air has mass, air can be compressed, air takes up space, air exerts pressure, and air is affected by temperature.
500
Leaves make food from _____ and _________ in a process called ___________.
What is water, carbon dioxide, and photosynthesis.
500
This is a conclusion about something based upon an observation.
What is an inference?
500
This is the movement of a plane from left to right in the horizontal axis.
What is yaw?
500
This is the time of day when the shadow of an object on Earth is the shortest.
What is noon?
500
This is the property of air most obviously in effect when it is pumped into a bicycle tire.
What is air can be compressed?
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