Space Science
What causes day and night?
What is Earth's rotation around the axis?
Draw a food chain for a plant, insect, mouse, and cat.
Drawing shows Sun, correct direction of arrows, flow of energy ends with cat.
What is weathering?
What is the breaking down of materials by water, wind, etc.
What percent of the Earth is covered in salt water?
What is 97%?
Anything that has mass and takes up space is called this.
What is matter?
What are 2 times shadows are longer?
What is morning/evening and winter.
What are the 2 types of weathering? What is the difference between them?
What are chemical and mechanical? Chemical weathering produces a new substance, mechanical just changes size and shape.
Which source of freshwater has the most amount of water?
What is icebergs and glaciers (2% of freshwater)?
List 5 properties of matter.
Possible responses may include: texture, magnetism, color, volume, hardness, transparency, conductivity, material, fluorescence, luminosity, etc.
Why can we see different constellations during different parts of the year?
Earth revolves around the Sun, so we see the stars at night that are in that part of the universe.
How would taking rabbits out of a forest impact the ecosystem?
What is predators lose food and the rabbits don't eat as much plants?
What is one way the geosphere is impacted by the hydrosphere?
Possible answers may include: weathering, erosion...
What are the 3 main stages of the water cycle?
What evaporation, condensation, precipitation?
The idea that matter cannot be created or destroyed is known as what?
What is the Conservation of Matter?
Why are shadows shorter around noon?
What is the Sun is higher in the sky?
How are mountains usually formed?
What are plates moving together
What force causes precipitation to fall back to Earth?
What is gravity?
Lila puts 10g of water and 3g of sugar into a cup. What is the total amount in grams of substances in the cup?
If all of the water evaporated, how much sugar would be left in the cup?
13 g
3g
Draw a picture of Earth the represents the pull of gravity for all parts of the planet.
Picture shows Earth with correct direction of arrows.
What are 5 adaptations animals might have to survive?
Possible answers include: beaks, camouflage, claws, good hearing or eyesight, venom, speed...
Why don't plants need soil to survive? What do they need?
What is plants only require air, water, and sunlight to grow. If plants can get nutrients in other ways, they don't need soil.
What is one reason to explain why oceans are so salty?
Minerals from eroding rocks flow from rivers to oceans
When water evaporates, it leaves the salt behind
What are 4 ways to tell a chemical reaction has happened?
Possible answers include: light, smoke, bubbles, gas, color change, het, new material