Physics
A push or pull applied to an object.
What is a force?
The three states of matter.
What are solid, liquid and gas?
The basic units or building blocks of all organisms.
What are cells?
The most massive planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
All of the solid, nonliving parts of Earth, including rocks, minerals, soil and sediment.
What is the geosphere?
The formula for calculating speed.
What (total)distance divided by (total)time?
A pure substance consisting of a single type of atom.
What is an element?
The process during which surviving organisms pass on their traits to their offspring, ensuring survival of the fittest.
What is Natural Selection?
The force that attracts objects toward each other, and is affected by the mass and distance of an object.
What is gravity?
An area of the ground where all of the water flowing downhill collects in rivers, lakes and streams.
What is a watershed?
An object's speed and direction is known as ________.
What is velocity?
A mixture in which different substances are visible and does not appear the same throughout.
What is a heterogeneous mixture?
A three-sided model that shows the flow of energy through trophic levels in an ecosystem, from producers to tertiary consumers.
What is an energy pyramid?
Composed of dust, rock and frozen gasses that revolve around the Sun; sometimes referred to as "dirty snowballs" in our solar system.
What are comets?
Huge slabs of rock that form Earth's lithosphere and move around because of convection currents in the mantle.
What are tectonic plates?
Three ways in which thermal energy transfers.
What are conduction, convection and radiation?
The process in which one or more new substances are formed and evidenced by gas production, color change, temperature change, formation of a precipitate and odor.
What is evidence of a chemical change?
The organ system which acts as a barrier, protecting the inside of the body from the environment.
What is the integumentary system?
Consisting of the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.
What are the inner, or rocky planets?
This is a term used to describe a break in the ground, associated with earthquakes.
What is a fault?
This states that "An object at rest stays at rest, and an object in motion stays in motion at a constant speed in a straight line unless acted upon by an unbalanced force".
What is Newton's First Law of Motion?
A homogeneous mixture in which water is the solvent, dissolving other substances, known as solutes.
What is an aqueous solution?
A system for describing, classifying and naming organisms based on their characteristics.
What is taxonomy?
The sphere surrounding our solar system, made of billions of icy bodies, and the source of long-term comets.
What is the Oort Cloud?
A large underground area made of permeable rock, gravel, sand or silt that stores groundwater.
What is an aquifer?