Physical Science
A noticeably different form or state of the same substance?
What is a phase?
This is considered the basic unit of structure and function in living things.
What is a cell?
This is the reason we see different phases of the Moon throughout the month.
What is the Moon's orbit (around the Earth)?
These are used by scientists and engineers to study, test, and design ideas.
The proposed answer to a scientific question. It will require evidence to be evaluated.
What is energy?
This system circulates oxygen and nutrients through the body.
What is the circulatory system?
Short-term vs. long-term atmospheric conditions.
What is weather vs. climate?
These two design elements help limit and focus the solution.
What are criteria and constraints?
These are changed or measured in an experiment to test a hypothesis.
What are variables?
A push or pull.
What is a force?
This is a trait that increases an organism's change of survival.
What is an adaptive trait?
Movement in the Earth's crust that can cause earthquakes.
This is the plan or idea for solving a problem.
What is a design?
These visual tools help identify trends and patterns in data.
What are graphs?
In this state of matter, molecules move the fastest and are spread far apart.
What is a gas?
What are producers?
This type of rock is formed from cooling lava or magma.
What is an igneous rock?
This is what you do after building a prototype to check its performance.
What is test and evaluate?
This type of information is used to support or refute scientific claims.
What is evidence?
When two objects exert the same force on each other. The effect can be different depending on their mass and initial velocity.
What is a collision?
This process breaks down glucose for energy in cells.
What is cellular respiration?
This natural resource is used for energy but releases a lot of carbon into the air when burned and contributes to air pollution and climate change.
The process in which engineers plan, build, test, analyze, and repeat to create their design.
What is the design cycle?
These are the two types of variables that affect and measure change. One is the factor we are testing and the other is the result.
What are independent and dependant variables?