Matter
Soil
Water Cycle
More Matter
Wild Card
100
What are the three states of matter that water can have?
What is a solid, liquid, and a gas?
100
Soil provides this important ingredient for plant growth.
What are nutrients?
100
This makes water evaporate faster.
What is the sun?
100
Changing the size or shape of an object is called a ___________ _____________.
Physical change.
100
Name two physical properties of a banana.
Yellow and soft.
200
This has no definite shape or definite volume.
What is a gas?
200
Name the layers of soil beginning with the top.
What is topsoil, subsoil, and bedrock?
200
The path that water follows as it evaporates into the air, condenses into clouds, and returns to Earth as rain.
What is the water cycle?
200
Descriptions of an object such as color, hardness, texture, shape, and size.
What are physical properties?
200
Animals can get water from their environment by eating berries. True or False
True
300
This has no definite shape but takes up a definite amount of space.
What is a liquid?
300
Decayed twigs, leaves, or animals make up this component of soil.
What is humus?
300
When water vapor changes to liquid water.
What is condensation?
300
The amount of space something takes up.
What is volume?
300
This layer of soil is made mostly of sand and silt, but has some clay at the bottom.
What is subsoil?
400
When water is a gas it is called ______________.
What is water vapor?
400
This part of soil holds the most water.
What is clay?
400
When water drops in clouds get bigger, they become heavy and fall to the Earth as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation?
400
This changes when a ball of play doh is squished.
What is shape?
400
The part of soil that would be the size of a golf ball if sand is the size of a baseball and gravel is the size of a basketball.
What is clay?
500
This has a definite shape and takes up a definite amount of space.
What is a solid?
500
Name the four parts of soil from smallest to largest.
Clay, Silt, Sand, Gravel
500
When water changes to a water vapor it is called ____________.
Evaporation
500
The smallest part of any material.
What is an atom?
500
The study of materials at the molecular (atomic) scale.
What is nanotechnology.
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