This system is also known as the message transport system of the human body
What is the nervous system?
100
This ecosystem has maple, oak, hickory trees and black bears, racoons, and hawks.
What is the deciduous forest?
100
Ryan observed that his jacket is stuffed with feathers which keep him warm during cold weather. Is his jacket a conductor or an insulator?
Insulator
100
The amount of matter in something.
Mass
200
The weight of the atmosphere on Earth's surface.
What is air pressure?
200
The digestive system breaks down food into simple nutrients that can be used by the cells of the body. This body system supports the digestive system by transporting
simple nutrients to all the cells of the body.
The circulatory system
200
This aquatic ecosystem has a change in temperature the deeper you go and is a freshwater ecosystem.
What is a lake?
200
The amount of matter in something.
What is mass?
200
The movement of an object across a certain area.
What is motion?
300
A large body of air that has the same temperature and moisture properties throughout.
What is an air mass?
300
These two body systems work together to help a person move
What is the skeletal and muscular systems?
300
This ecosystem has the largest number of plant and animal species.
What is the tropical rain forest?
300
Tom wants to study heat transfer in different materials. He fills a plastic cup and a steel cup with 100 mL of cold water and places the cups outside in the Sun for 20 minutes. When Tom measures the temperature, he finds out that the water in the steel cup is 5 degrees warmer than the water in the plastic cup. Which is a better conductor, plastic or steel?
Steel
300
A push or pull on an object that causes the object to move or change direction/speed
What is force?
400
This instrument is used to measure wind speed.
What is anemometer?
400
Landon sneezes and has a runny nose when he comes in contact with the pollen of certain flowers. This system is most affected by the presence of pollen in the air.
What is the respiratory system?
400
This ecosystem has fertile soil and is home to prairie grass and many other grass-feeding animals.
What is the grassland?
400
Which tool should be used to measure the amount of heat energy in the atmosphere?
Thermometer
400
When a new substance is formed this is called a ________ change.
What is chemical?
500
A warm ocean current that causes an increase in temperatures for land that this is adjacent to.
What is the Gulf Stream?
500
This system is responsible for helping fluids and waste materials exit the body.
What is the excretory system?
500
This is the largest saltwater ecosystem and contains sharks, whales, coral, jellyfish, seaweed and many other species
What is the ocean?
500
Anna fills a metal pan with water and places the pan on a stove to boil. She drops a piece of pasta in the pan of boiling water and observes that it rises to the top of the pan, gets pushed to the side, sinks to the bottom of the pan, rises again, and so on.
What causes the piece of pasta to move as described?
What is convection?
500
Matter has physical properties that can be observed without changing the type of matter. Matter can also change in ways that do not affect the type of matter. These changes are called ____________.