Physical Science
Earth Science
Life Science
Nature of Science
Vocabulary
100

True or False

It takes more force to move a bag of garbage forward than a piano.

What is false?

100

Large sheets of ice that can cause erosion

What is glaciers?

100

An animal that eats both plants and animals.

What is a Omnivore?

100

This is the number of trials that should be conducted for an experiment

What is three?

100
This term is defined as large waves caused by an earthquake or landslied.

What is a Tsunami

200

Choose the form of heat that is transferred from a pot of boiling water to a spoon used for stirring.

Conduction       Insulation

Convection       Radiation


What is conduction?

200

This property of matter describes the powder color left behind on a porcelain tile.

What is streak?

200

True or False

This is an example of a food chain

Rabbit -> fox -> flowers

What is False

200

This is the National System of Measurement

(meter, liter, grams, etc.)

What is the Metric System

200
Conditions in which an organism lives

What is environment?

300

Light waves travel fastest through this.

cardboard box      cement wall

glass jar               vertical blinds

what is glass jar?

300

This planet has liquid water and available oxygen.

What is Earth?

300

This is the second step in the life cycle of a butterfly.

egg  pupa stage   caterpillar stage   laval stage

What is larval stage

300

This part of the experiment summarizes the findings and answers the problem statement.

conclusion      stating the problem

recording data    research

What is conclusion?

300

Internal support structure of an animal

What is endoskeleton?

400

The equation for speed

What is Speed = distance divided by time?

400

This planet has obvious rings.

What is Saturn?

400

An example of a flowering plant.

pine trees    lilies   mosses   ferns

What are lillies?

400
This term is used to describe the part of the experiment that remains unchanged.


control group  dependent variable  

independent variable   experimental

What is control group?

400

The term for spinning of an object on its axis.

What is rotation?

500
This ball would take more force to bounce.


basketball   tennis ball   ping pong ball   beachball

What is basketball?

500

This is the season that occurs in the northern hemisphere when the Earth's axis is tilted away from the sun.

What is Winter

500

This is the most common cause for competition among living things.

food   oil   rain   sleep

What is food?

500
This is the part of the experiment where a prediction is made before experimentation begins.

What is the hypothesis?

500

The loose top layer of Earth's surface made of weathered rock and organic matter.

What is soil?

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