Science Terms
Science Terms
PSSA Facts
Across the U.S.
Just For Fun
100
something you notice with your 5 senses.
What is an observation?
100
To change something.
What is modify?
100
Name two things you should do before a big test.
What is eat a good breakfast, get a good night's sleep, study, review test taking strategies, take deep breathes.
100
Name of state that is experiencing a 4 year drought.
What is California?
100
refers to the equal rights, responsibilities and opportunities of women and men and girls and boys.
What is gender equality?
200
An educated explanation or guess.
What is hypothesis?
200
scientific procedure made to discover or test a hypothesis or to show a fact
What is an experiment?
200
Name two test taking strategies we have reviewed in class.
What is read the questions first, read all answer choices.
200
This state is a Peninsula (surrounded by water on 3 sides). It is also a great vacation spot.
What is Florida?
200
primarily produces circulating coinage for the United States to conduct its trade and commerce. Facilities operated in Philadelphia, Denver, San Francisco, and West Point, New York and a bullion depository at Fort Knox, Kentucky.
Who is a mint?
300
The way a thing turns out.
What is outcome or result?
300
to carry out or accomplish a task.
What is perform?
300
Grades that take the PSSA's.
What is 3,4,5,6,7, and 8.
300
A U.S. state situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent. (Is really cold there)
What is Alaska?
300
First woman to run for presidential office.
Who is Hillary Clinton?
400
Group of bonded atoms, smallest unit that can have a chemical reaction.
What is a molecule?
400
degree to which heat is present.
What is temperature?
400
High school students take this kind of exam.
What is Keystone Exams?
400
The second most populous (after California) and the second largest of the 50 U.S. states (after Alaska) in the United States of America. Geographically located in the south central part of the country.
What is Texas?
400
Number of teens who were arrested in 2001.
What is 2.3 million?
500
Subatomic particle found in the nucleus, no charge
What is neutrons?
500
When you observe the quality or description of something
What is qualitative observation?
500
What PSSA stands for.
What is Pennsylvania System of School Assessment?
500
Known as the nerve center of the nation, this state is the leader in manufacturing, foreign trade, commerce, and banking, book and magazine publishing, and theatrical production.
What is New York?
500
An American inventor, Scientist, musician, statesman. (lighting rod, stove, bifocals and many other things)
Who is Ben Franklin?
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