Vocabulary
Light Waves
Evolution + Natural Selection
Earth, Moon, and Sun
BOY (Beginning of Year)
100

A set of interacting parts forming a complex whole.

What is "system"?

100

This is the type of light that human eyes can see.

What is visible light?

100

A way of hiding from predators or danger by looking similar to one's environment.

What is camouflage?

100

This is at the center of the solar system.

What is the sun?

100

This concept covers the idea of having someone's permission before you are intimate with them.

What is consent?

200

An object, diagram, or computer program that helps us understand something by making it simpler or easier to see.

What is "model"?

200

True or False?
All light sources emit the same type of light.

What is false? (Or just "False.")

200

The process of an organism being better suited to survive in its environment, so it is able to reproduce and pass on its adaptive traits

What is natural selection?

200

The nearly circular path a smaller object (like the Moon) travels around a larger object (like Earth) is called this.

What is "orbit"?

200

The two major forms of energy.

What is/are kinetic and potential energy?

300

To give off.

What is "emit"?

300

Lights travel in this pattern/motion.

What is a wave?

300

True or false?
An organism's adaptations will always be helpful to surviving in its environment because it would not reproduce otherwise.

What is false? (Or just "False.")

300

The five phases of the moon. (Hint: Not "waxing" or "waning" moons)

What are new moon, crescent moon, quarter moon, gibbous moon, and full moon?

300

Magnets follow particular rules about how they do and don't interact, but one common phrase sums it up that also describes unlikely relationships.

What is "opposites attract"?

400

A trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment.

What is "adaptive trait"?

400

Damage is done to genetic material such as DNA when it does this with some types of light.

What is absorb some of its energy?

400

This process takes generations and uses natural selection to explain how new species form over time.

What is evolution?

400

Lunar eclipses occur when the Earth comes between the moon and the sun, which means they happen during this lunar phase.

What is a full moon?

400

These are machines that can take kinetic energy, such as from flowing water, and convert it into the electrical energy that powers modern life.

What is a generator?

500

The space around a magnet in which magnetic forces can act on objects.

What is "magnetic field"?

500

A light's energy is determined by this aspect of the light.

What is wavelength?

500

Two organisms on an evolutionary tree that branch off of the same organism are called this.

What is a descendant species?

500

The moon is red during a lunar eclipse because of this.

What is light scattering/bending/passing through Earth's atmosphere?

500

2 magnets store energy in their magnetic field lines when they are moving against this.

What is the magnetic force?

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