Solar System
How many Stars are in our Galaxy?
Billions (100-400 billion)
Why do Foxes have a white coat in winter and brown in spring?
What is Adaptation
what is the purpose of the leaf and how?
Produce food, Photosynthesis
What hardness does a Diamond have?
What is 10
What is a Graduated Cylinder?
It measures volume and is shaped like a cylinder
What are the planets in order?
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto
What Type of Animal is a Coyote?
What is Consumer
what helpful thing do plants do to the enviorment?
They take in Carbon Dioxide and breath out Oxygen
Jonathan is using a rock and scraping it on a white plate. What is Jonathan measuring?
What is Streak
Sam thinks a Barometer is used for directions. What mistake did he make?
He mistook a barometer from a Compass
What are the shapes and names of the Galaxys?
Spiral - Barrel Shaped
Irregular - Scattered Shaped
Elliptical - Football Shaped
Why are predators important?
They Keep a food chain balanced. If there are none, the herbivore population will keep increase until there is no grass
Why are plants mostly green?
Antonio sees an igneous rock. It has small crystals on it. What does this mean?
It cooled slowly
Jonah found a Seashell a puts it on a tool to measure its mass. What tool is it?
What is Balance
Why do the planets orbit the sun?
The sun's gravity pulls the planet toward the sun, which changes the straight line of direction into a curve and keeps the planet moving in an orbit around the sun. Because of the sun's gravitational pull, all the planets in our solar system orbit around it
What group of animals gives birth to live babies?
What is Mammal
What is the plant parts that take in water and minerals from the soil?
What is Root
Sally uses quartz and rubs it against a rock. The rock gets scratched. What does this mean about the rock's hardness?
It has a hardness less than 7
Tommy uses a tool to look at a new material sample he found. What is he using?
What is Microscope
How far approximately is Neptune to the Sun in light hours?
Approx. 4 light-hours away
after a animal dies, tiny bugs gather near it. What are the bugs doing?
Scavenging the corpse of the animal as food. After the animal gets scavenged, it gets turned into nutrients for the ground and plants
What are the two parts of the vascular plant and what do they do?
Xylem: strong, thick tubes. They carry water and minerals from the plant's roots to its leaves.
Phloem: thinner tubes than xylem. They carry the glucose made in photosynthesis
Sedimentary rock gets melted and cooled. then it gets heat and pressure. What type of Rock is it now?
What is Metamorphic
What measures newtons?
- Spring scale
- Balance
What is Spring scale