Astronomy
This is the term used to describe an object spinning around its axis.
What is rotation?
This is the name of the part of a plant cell that acts as an extra layer of sturdy protection. It's sturdiness is affected by the amount of water inside the vacuole.
What is the cell wall?
This is the variable that is manipulated/changed in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
This is what we call a combination of atoms bounded together. Some examples of it include oxygen, water, and caffeine.
What is a molecule?
What's Mr. Magaliff's favorite type of chips?
Hint: there's no chip like the kind of chips made where Mr. M is from...
What are Cape Cod Potato Chips?
This is the moon phase in which we see "half" of the moon lit up on the right side.
What is first quarter?
This is the organelle that holds all of the cell's genetic code and provides instructions for all of what the cell does. You could call it, "the brains".
What is a nucleus?
This is the variable the depends on the independent variable and is the variable being measured in the experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
This molecule exists in the air naturally but too much of it can lead to climate change. This molecule is released from burning fossil fuels like gasoline and oil.
What is carbon dioxide?
What are the 3 body systems we will study in our anatomy unit?
What are the digestive, respiratory, and circulatory systems?
This is the name for the astronomical event in which the Earth moves directly in front of the sun and blocks light from hitting the moon.
What is a lunar eclipse?
This is an organelle only found in a plant cell and is the location in which photosynthesis occurs.
What is the chloroplast?
This is the variable that is used to compare your results with. It is the variable that is unchanged throughout the experiment.
What is a control?
This is the name of the particle that circles around the nucleus of an atom.
What is an electron?
This is the name of one of the 8th grade science teachers. He's a very tall guy and likes to grow plants in his classroom...
Who is Mr. Wilson?
This is the name for the astronomical event in which the moon moves in front of the sun and blocks light from hitting parts of the Earth.
What is a solar eclipse?
This is the name of the kingdom that Tetrahymena belong to.
What is Kingdom Protista?
Jerry McJerry wanted to test how temperature affected plant growth. They planned to grow 3 of the same plants in 3 different rooms that had 3 different temperatures in them. What is their dependent variable?
This is the name of the particle that is positively charged in an atom and exists in the nucleus of an atom.
What is a proton?
What subject did Mr. Magaliff teach along with science at his former school?
What is math?
In order from closest to farthest, these are the 4 planets closest to the sun.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
When a plant cell is exposed to a highly concentrated salt solution, water from inside the vacuole will leave and go outside the cell, causing the cell membrane to shrink. What is the scientific term used to describe the highly concentrated salt solution outside the cell and the low concentrated salt solution inside the cell?
What is a hypertonic solution and a hypotonic solution?
Griswold McDon Jr. wanted to find out what types of cat food his 5 cats like best. Each night he fed them different types of cat food and recorded how much they ate and how quickly they came running. What is the independent variable in this experiment?
What is the different types of cat food?
This particle has a neutral charge and exists in the nucleus of an atom. There are usually the same number of this particle as protons.
What is a nuetron?
This is the name of Mr. Magaliff's cat. It kinda sounds like a type of flower you would give someone on Valentine's Day...
Who is Rosie?