Scientific Notation Challenge
Convert 3,600,000 to scientific notation
3.6 \times 10^6
This is the process where organisms best suited to their environment survive and reproduce.
What is natural selection?
This movement causes day and night on Earth.
What is the Earth's rotation on its axis?
This force keeps planets in orbit, which gets stronger as an object's mass increases.
What is Gravity?
This is the smallest unit of matter.
What is an Atom?
This is the largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
Convert 5.9 × 10⁻³ back to standard form
0.0059
This adaptation allows animals like chameleons and insects to hide from predators, but it also allows predators to blend in to their environment and ambush their prey.
What is camouflage?
This moon phase comes after a full moon.
What is a Waning gibbous?
One of Isaac Newton's laws of motion state that objects stay at rest or in motion unless acted on by a force.
What is Newton's First Law?
Dmitri Mendeleev devised this system to organize the elements of the universe based on atomic mass and similar chemical properties.
What is the periodic table?
This object is at the center of our solar system and provides all of the energy found in the solar system.
What is the Sun?
Why do scientists use scientific notation
To simplify writing and comparing very large or very small numbers.
Humans do this by breeding organisms for desired traits.
What is artificial selection?
The gravitational pull from this object causes the Earth's tides to shift in and out.
What is the Moon?
This force increases when tougher surfaces force push together.
What is friction?
This type of bond forms when electrons are transferred.
What is an Ionic bond?
Changes in the Earth's seasons are caused by Earth's unique position and movement.
What is Earth’s tilt on its axis?
The diameter of a human cell is 0.000002 meters. Write in scientific notation.
2.0 \times 10^{-6}
A body part that no longer serves a function, like the human appendix.
What is a vestigial structure?
It takes the Moon about this long to orbit Earth.
What is about 27.3 days?
This happens when an unbalanced force acts on an object.
What is acceleration?
The number of this subatomic particle found in an atom's nucleus determines what element that atom is.
What are protons?
On November 3, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2, which was the first space launch carrying this living organism.
Who is Laika the dog?
What does a negative exponent in scientific notation mean
The number is smaller than one, meaning the decimal moves left.
This random change in DNA can create genetic variation, which can lead to new adaptations.
What is a mutation?
The Moon’s position relative to Earth and the Sun changes, resulting in changes of the Moon's ____.
What are phases?
What is microgravity?
This subatomic particle has no charge.
What is a neutron?
This is a region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape.
What is a black hole?