Science Practices
In order to pass your Science GED, what must you be?
A.) A passive reader
B.) An active reader
What is B.) an active reader?
What are the charges of a proton, neutron, and an electron?
What is:
Proton: positive
Neutron: neutral
Electron: negative
What are the four layers of the earth?
What are the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core?
The three states of matter
What is a solid, liquid, and gas?
Name at least two types of blood vessels.
What are:
Veins, venules, arteries, arterioles, or capillaries
List the five steps of the scientific method
What are..
1. Observation/Ask a question
2. Research
3. Hypothesis
4. Test with an experiment
5. Conclusion
Label the following as a mixture or as a solution.
A.) Ocean waterB.) The seashells and sand found on a beach
What is:
A.) solution
B.) mixture
Are the following resources renewable or nonrenewable and why:
coal, peat, natural gas, oil
What is nonrenewable?
Because once they are used up, they cannot be replaced.
The temperature at which a solid becomes a liquid
What is its melting point?
What is the formula for photosynthesis?
What is:
6CO2 + 6H2O + light --------> C6H12O6 + 6O2
C + O2 ----> CO
What is/are the reactant(s) for the equation above?
What is/are the product(s)?
Reactants:
What are Carbon (C) and Oxygen (O2)?
Products:
What is Carbon Dioxide (CO2)?
The name for a bond in which atoms share a pair of electrons
What is a covalent bond?
Name the 8 planets
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
The name for a bond in which atoms gain or lose electrons to become ions
What is an ionic bond?
List 10 of the 12 body systems.
What are:
1. Endocrine System
2. Nervous System
3. Excretory System
4. Circulatory System
5. Respiratory System
6. Integumentary System
7. Reproductive System
8. Immune System
9. Lymphatic System
10. Digestive System
11. Skeletal System
12. Muscular System
N + H2 -----> NH2
What does the arrow above mean?
What is yield?
The law stating that matter is neither created nor destroyed during a chemical reaction
What is the law of conservation of mass?
The term for when a warm air mass rises over a cold air mass
What is a warm front?
When scrambling an egg, you add heat energy and the egg solidifies. The egg has absorbed energy from its surrounding.
Is this an exothermic or endothermic reaction?
What is an endothermic reaction?
What is the main difference between a prokaryote and a eukaryote?
What is, a prokaryote has a nucleoid, while a eukaryote has a nucleus?
How do you properly find the mean, median, and mode?
Mean: the average of the number set
Median: order the number set from least to greatest and find the number in the middle
Mode: the number that occurs the most in the number set
What unit is energy measured in?
What are joules?
A galaxy is a huge collection of gas, dust, and billions of stars and their solar systems.
What is the name of the galaxy that contains our Solar System?
What is the Milky Way?
What is Newton's first law (aka the law of inertia)?
What is "an object at rest will stay at rest and an object in motion will stay in motion (until a force acts upon it)"?
Place the following trophic levels in their correct order on an energy pyramid (from bottom to top).
Tertiary consumers, primary consumers, quaternary consumers, producers, secondary consumers
What is:
5. Quaternary Consumers
4. Tertiary Consumers
3. Secondary Consumers
2. Primary Consumers
1. Producers/Primary producers