Plants
What chemical gives plants their green coloring and often breaks down once fall comes?
Chlorophyll
What are the 2 main ingredients in the volcano experiment
Baking soda and vinegar
What happens if you put something in water that is LESS dense than the water?
It floats
Name the 3 things we ALWAYS put in slime
Glue, baking soda, contact solution (activator).
What does the boric acid do in slime?
Activates the slime to come together
When we tried to take all the pulp off leaves (and it didn't work ) what were we trying to make.
Skeleton leaves
What did we get to dance up and down in a jar when carbon dioxide bubbles from soda attached to the crevices in it.
What type of stones did we dig for in cubes of sand?
Gemstones
We made slime 5 times this year, name/describe 3 kinds we made.
(List any 3) pumpkin pie slime, Christmas sparkle slime, glitter/gold slime, fluffy green St. Patrick's day slime, Magnetic slime.
What candy did we try when we transitioned from talking about rocks to talking about carbon dioxide reactions, and why?
Pop rocks because they have pressurized carbon dioxide in them which makes them pop
What liquid did we use as a solvent to try and pull color out of the leaves of plants
Rubbing alcohol
Carbon dioxide in our lava lamps cause bubbles to attach to colored water blobs and pull them up through what other liquid?
Oil
What mineral (sometimes used as a cleaner) did we grow crystals from on pipe cleaners?
Borax
What did we put in our magnetic slime to get the magnets to stick to it?
iron oxide powder
When we used chromatography paper during a game of detective to discover Andrea was the criminal, what was the solvent we used to split the marker colors?
Water
Why did the white flowers and celery change color when put in colored water.
Capillary action pulling the dyed water through the xylem (tubes in the stems)
What caused the carbon dioxide reaction in our mini rockets?
Alkaseltzer tablets
What do you call the rocks that we smashed open with a hammer to see the crystals inside?
What ingredient did we add to the St. Patrick's day slime to make it fluffy?
Shaving cream
Why did the bouncy balls we made not have the same bounce that commercially made bouncy balls have?
They use different materials, polymers like Borax vs rubber
What was the name of the paper we used to try and get color out of the leaves?
Chromotography paper
What did the egg in the volcano and the ice cream in the root beer floats have in common?
Both involved using fat/proteins to coat the carbon dioxide bubbles causing a slower rising foam,
What 2 liquids did we use in our poly density bottles?
Salt water and rubbing alcohol
What is the ingredient that HAS to be in contact solution to make it work as a slime activator?
Boric acid
What did we put in the dancing cranberry jars to make them glow under a black light?
Tonic water