This term refers to vibrations or movements in Earth.
What is an earthquake?
100
The Sun, Earth, Moon, other planets, their moons and smaller objects make up this vast system?
What is the Solar System?
100
This term refers to up-and-down movements of water.
What are waves?
100
The upward force of water, another liquid, or air, that keeps things afloat.
What is buoyancy?
100
This measurement refers to the number of *unit squares* that cover a surface.
What is area?
200
A split or break in the outer layer of Earth goes by this name.
What is a fault?
200
This names a hot sphere of gases that gives off energy.
What is a star?
200
This refers to a long period of time with little or no precipitation in an area.
What is a drought?
200
This is anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
200
This measurement refers to how much space an object takes up.
What is volume?
300
Name the outermost layer of Earth.
What is the crust?
300
Tell if SUN is a planet or a star.
A star? Yes! The sun is a star!
300
List three ways to conserve water.
Don't run water while brushing your teeth.
Fix leaky faucets.
Run only full loads in dishwashers and clothes washing machines. Don't run sprinklers during the heat of the day.
Use water only when needed. Shower instead of bathe.
300
A characteristic of matter that you can observe is called this.
What is a property of matter?
300
This measures the pull of gravity between an object and Earth.
What is weight?
400
This names the spinning movement of Earth on its axis.
What is rotation?
400
Water in the atmosphere falling to earth as rain, snow, sleet, or hail are generally referred to by this term.
What is precipitation?
400
This is what a weather thermometer measures.
What is air temperature?
400
These are the four states of matter we discussed in lab.
What are solid, liquid, gas, and plasma?
400
These are the ways physical changes can take place, but the properties of matter do not change.
What is size, shape, position, texture and state?
500
This refers to a pattern or picture outlined by stars.
What is a constellation?
500
These are the stages in a water cycle.
What are evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?
500
This instrument measures air direction.
What is a weather vane?
500
This refers to the number of units that can fit along one *edge* of an object.
What is length?
500
Describe the physical and chemical changes of M&M's in our mouths in science lab.
What is crushed with teeth, changing size and shape, then in the digestive system, chemically broken down into smaller, digestible parts?