What is the function of the Immune System?
A: to work with the Nervous System
B: to protect the body from germs
C: to digest food
What is to protect the body from germs?
100
If you cool a gas, it may ___ into a liquid:
condense
evaporate
freeze
melt
What is CONDENSE?
100
The sun is a
galaxy
planet
star
ball of gas
What is STAR?
100
How long an organism can be expected to live is called its ______________.
A: life span
B: life cycle
C: cycle of life
What is LIFE SPAN?
100
What is a hurricane?
A: A large funnel that forms from the sky
B: A lightning storm
C: A storm that forms at sea and strikes land
D: An ice blizzard with gusty winds
What is A storm that forms at sea and strikes land?
200
What causes disease and infection?
A: germs and viruses
B: Immune System
C: overactive bladder
What is Germs and viruses?
200
A neutron has what electrical charge?
no charge
positive charge
negative charge
either a positive or negative charge
What is NO CHARGE?
200
Which planet is known as the "Red Planet?"
Mars
Earth
Venus
Saturn
What is MARS?
200
What is an exoskeleton?
A: animals without a skeleton
B: external supporting structure of some animals
C: internal supporting structure of some animals
What is internal supporting structure of some animals?
200
The eye of a storm happens at the center of a hurricane or tornado. What is it like inside the eye?
A: stormy
B: foggy
C: calm
D: ice cold
What is CALM?
300
When germs do find a way into the body, what helps find and kill them?
A: Immune System
B: blood
C: red blood cells
D: white blood cells
What is Immune System?
300
You are given a 2-liter bottle of Cola. 2 liters is a measure of:
volume
mass
length
density
What is VOLUME?
300
A small piece of rock and metal that travels in space around the sun?
Nebulae
Meteorite
Meteoroid
Planet
What is METEOROID?
300
What are warm-blooded vertebrates with hollow bones called?
A: cats
B: lizards
C: birds
D: mice
What is BIRDS?
300
A downdraft is a cool wind that what?
A: Blows across the mountains
B: Blows down from the sky to the earth
C: Blows up from the earth to the sky
D: None of the above
What is Blows down from the sky to the earth?
400
What carries the information?
a) spinal cord
b) brain
c) lungs
What is brain?
400
Which of the following is a nonrenewable source of energy?
wind power
coal
solar power
water power or hydropower
What is COAL?
400
Which is most reponsible for seasons?
A.how close we are to the sun
B.the earth's rotation
C.the earth's tilt
D.all of the above
E.None of the above
What is (C) THE EARTH'S TILT?
400
Animals, such as lizards, that warm their bodies in the sun during the day are this.
A: warm-blooded
B: cold-blooded
C: vertebrates
D: invertebrates
What is COLD-BLOODED?
400
Lightning can be very dangerous when it strikes. How many people are killed or injured every year by lightning?
A: 0 to 50
B: 50 to 100
C: 100 to 150
D: over 150
What is 50 to 100?
500
What gives the brain messages?
a) nerves
b) heart
c) large intestine
What is Nerves?
500
Electricity and heat move easily through this material:
plastic
air
insulators
conductors
What is CONDUCTORS?
500
The last four planets, also known as the outer planets, are
A.Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
B.Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus
C.Pluto, Saturn, Neptune, Mercury
D.Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
What is (D) Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
500
The desert is often looked at as a wasteland, dead, void of life. However, there is the wealth of life and possibilities which exist behind its dry, rock-ridden mask. Which two animals are able to survive in the hot dry environment?
A: coyote and horses
B: coyote and lizards
C: lizards and snakes
D: B and C
What is B AND C?
500
What is a tornado?
A: A funnel of air from the ground to the sky
B: a funnel of air from the sky to the ground
C: a water funnel on the ocean
D: a cold western wind
What is A funnel of air from the ground to the sky?