Physical Changes and Chemical Changes
Electricity and magnetism
constructive and destructive forces
Life science
Inherited and acquired traits
100

When does a physical change occur?

when the size, shape, or state of matter changes

100

 why the light bulb in the picture dose not light up? 


The battery is dead or the wire is not connected.

100

How are earthquakes both destructive and constructive?


by causing damage to homes and buildings/ creating a new feature of mountains and valleys+
its destructive by harming the environment/ constructive by building things up

100

jelly like material that protects cell organelles

what is a cytoplasm?

100

A characteristic that a living thing gets from its parents

what is a inherited trait?

200

What is the difference between a physical change and a chemical change?

A physical change is when the size, shape, or state of matter changes, and chemical change is when the molecules of matter change to form a new substance.

200

How can a current be induced in a closed circuit without the use of a battery or electrical power?

by moving the circuit into a magnetic field

200

True or False: Earthquakes are destructive but not constructive.

FALSE
200

What is #2 in the diagram? 


do you know what a 
cell membrane is?

200

Are acquired physical traits passed down from parents to offspring?

no

300

A solid piece of chocolate is melted and changed to liquid form. Which property of the piece of chocolate will remain the same?

what is mass?

300

Curtis uses a wool cloth to give a balloon a negative charge.  What will happen if he holds the balloon near the wall, and why?  

he balloon will stick to the wall beacuse the negatively charged balloon is attracted to the uncharged wall. (It pushes the negatives away and is attracted to the positives)

300

A student claims that a sand dune is created by both a constructive and destructive force. Which argument BEST explains why the student’s claim is correct or incorrect.

The student is correct. The sand due is constructive by the deposition when the sand builds up and it is destructive by wind erosion and carrying away sediment.

300

Ms. Daley takes her class on a field trip to a pond. The class sees a bald eagle and a salamander near the pond. How are these two animals alike?


They both lay eggs

300

A dog has black fur with brown spots, a good sense of smell, a chipped tooth, and four legs. Which of these characteristics is an acquired physical trait?

a chipped tooth

400

Two clear substances are combined inside a plastic bag. The plastic bag is tightly sealed. What observation would indicate that mixing the chemical produced a new substance?

The substance in the bag becomes warm

400

Ryan has a circuit made up of a battery, a light bulb, some wires, and a metal rod as a switch.  Ryan replaces the metal rod with a wooden rod.  When he closes the new switch, what will Ryan most likely look at?

what is a unlit bulb

400

A student notices that the face of a mountain near a Georgia community has been changing. Some rocks have begun to break off the side of the mountain. A student claims that this is caused by a destructive process. Is the student's claim correct? Why or why not?

The student's claim is correct because the mountain is changing due to the destructive process of erosion.

400

Tulips and oak tree are both plants that look different. However, they both belong to the classification of plants that make

whats a seed?

400

A student has several rose plants. The flowers on one plant are yellow. The flowers on the other plants are red. Which is the BEST question the student could ask to determine whether yellow flowers are an inherited physical trait or an acquired physical trait?

Did the plant with yellow roses have a parent with yellow roses?

500

Students heat a white solid in a test tube over a flame. What observation would tell the students that the solid has become a new substance?

The color of the solid changes to amber.

500

Erica looked at a group of objects and classified them as conductors or insulators.  She made the table below to show her results.What object is classified incorrectly?

WHAT IS A wooden craft sticks?

500

A student claims that the surface feature in the image above was created by constructive processes.Is the student right or wrong?

The student is right because, 
the image is of a river delta, which is created when sediment is deposited at the mouth of the river where it meets a larger body of wate

500


The koala bears have sharp claws for climbing and the owls have sharp claws for grasping its prey.

500

A group of science students created a chart to show what they knew about inherited traits and learned behaviors in children.Which of these is an inherited trait the students could put in that column of the chart?

what is a girl crying when hurt?
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