Comets
Lizzy's world pt.1
Up in space
Fraction facts
Up in space 2
100

This dirty snowball is probably the most famous of its kind, in history.

What is Halley's Comet

100
Lizzy has two ribbons. One is 1/7 foot long and the other is 2/5 foot long. Finding this LCD will help Lizzy easily add these two fractions.

What is 35?

100

NASA's space shuttle mission controller reports to the astronauts that the water in tank #3 has a pH 1, these astronauts would be wise to ____________.

What is NOT drink the water in tank #3 because its dangerously acidic?
100

When comparing fractions with the same numerator and different denominators, larger denominators represent these size parts.

What are smaller parts?

100

This force can affect an astronaut's weight, depending on his/her location.

What is gravity?

200

Halley's Comet, a short term comet, visits our solar system with this frequency.

What is about every 76 years?

200

Lizzy has 1/3 pound of grapes at home. She bought 3/8 more at the store. This fraction of a pound describes Lizzy's grapes, in total.

What is 17/24th pound?
200

An astronaut notices a phase change in matter on board the space shuttle. The astronaut records this type of change into his/her scientific journal?

What is a physical change in matter?

200

These types of fractions have numerators that are smaller than denominators.

What are proper fractions?

200

A crew member is massing a chemical sample in space and uses this scientific piece of equipment to help.

What is an electronic balance?

300

Scientists spend a lot time and energy studying comets for this reason.

What is..

a) comets may contain elements and materials that formed with the beginning of our solar system

b) some of these elements may be the building blocks of life, itself.

300

For a trip to the beach, Kelly drove for 5/6 hour and Lizzy drove from 1/6 hour. Using estimation, tell about how much longer Kelly drove than Lizzy.

What is about 1 hour, longer?

300

As astronaut aboard a scientific research space-shuttle collects a comet (rock) sample. This rock sample fizzes in water. The astronaut records in his/her scientific journal evidence of a  ___________ change in matter just occured?

What is a chemical change in matter?

300

Improper fractions can be represented by mixed numbers. The improper fraction 8/7 can be renamed as this mixed number.

What is 1 and 1/7?

300

An astronaut records the mass of a small meteorite, collected in space using this metric unit.

What are grams?

400

Finish this prompt to describe the model of a comet:  

      Comets are made of _________.


What is "comets are made of rock & ice"?

400

An adult toy poodle weighs 7 4/5 pounds. An adult labrador weighs 9 3/4 pounds. This doggie weighs more by how many pounds.

What is the labrador weighs 1 19/20 pounds more than the toy poodle?

*this problem required you to borrow a whole from the number 9 and add then add that whole back in the form of  20/20 to the fraction 15/20, resulting in the new problem 8 35/20 - 7 16/20 = 1 19/20

400

Astronauts often practice space walks in a swimming pool, filled with pure water at room temperature and atmospheric pressure. While in the pool, an astronaut drops a wrench, with a density is 2.7 g/cu cm. This logically happened next.

What is the wrench will sink?

400
The whole number one can be written as this fraction.

What is any number over the same number. Example:  5/5, 9/9, 100/100

400

A rectangular shared probe part is 10 cm long, 5 cm wide and 5 cm high, a crew member records this volume into his/her scientific log.

What is 250 cu cm?

500

The nucleus, coma and tail are terms that best identify 

What are the parts of a comet?
500

The sum of these two fractions equal 7/8.

1/8 + 9/10

1/8 + 3/4

What are the fractions

1/8 + 9/10

500

This Law of Motion states that an object in motion will continue going with the same speed and in the same direction, until acted upon by an unbalanced force.

What is Newton's 1st Law of Motion?

500
These types of models can be used to add fractions, visually.

What are area models?

500

An astronaut uses water displacement to find the volume of a rock sample. This astronaut knows that the amount of water that rises in the graduated cylinder is equal to the volume of the rock sample. This technique works because of the relationship between milliliters and cubic centimeters, when measuring volume.

What is 1 mL = 1 cu cm?

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