Physics
What is the unit of measurement for force?
What is a Newton?
The Nile river carries sediments to the ocean. Over time, the sediments are compressed as more sediments are deposited on top of them. Which type of rock will be formed?
What is sedimentary?
A bear likes to eat berries as well as fish. What type of diet does a bear have?
What is omnivorous?
What food makes up 99% of a Giant Panda's diet?
What is bamboo?
Name at least 3 kinds of simple machines.
What are levers, pulleys, inclined planes, wedges, screws, and wheel and axle?
The volcano Kilauea on the big island of Hawai’i is erupting and lava is ejected from the volcano vent. The lava solidifies to form what type of rock?
What is igneous?
Your tongue is home to special structures that allow you to experience tastes such as sour, sweet, bitter and salty, what is their name?
What are taste buds?
What is the fastest land animal in the world?
What is the cheetah?
What is the main type of simple machine used in a simple catapult like we made in class?
What is a lever?
Off the coast of the Pacific Northwest in the United States, the Pacific plate is being pushed underneath the North American plate in a subduction zone, caused by plate tectonics. As the rock from the Pacific plate is pushed under the North American plate, it is subjected to high temperatures and pressures. Which rock will be created from this process?
What is metamorphic?
14. The bones that make up your spine are called what?
What are baby goats called?
What are kids?
What do you call a comically involved, complicated invention, laboriously contrived to perform a simple operation?
What is a Rube Goldberg Machine?
In the Arizona desert, a sudden rainstorm washes sand and sediment into the Colorado river, which eventually deposits the sediments into the ocean. This process is called:
What is erosion and transport?
What is the closest planet to the sun?
What is Mercury?
Botany is the study of what?
What are plants?
What two forces keep a ball from going forever when you kick it through the air (assuming there was nothing in it's path).
What are gravity and (air) friction?
In the desert, wind picks up and carries fine particles of sand and dirt. As the wind blows against the rocks, the particles rub against the rocks and wear them down in a process called:
What is weathering?
What planet is known as the red planet?
What is Mars?
What is the name of the largest ocean on earth?
What is the Pacific Ocean?