Earth and Space
Physical
Life
Nature of Science
Odds and Ends
100
A tool that helps predict clear or rainy weather by measuring the atmospheric pressure.
What is a barometer?
100
Name the solids that will not dissolve in water: sand, salt, sugar, flour, coffee.
What are flour and sand?
100
Two ways plants can reproduce.
What are seeds and spores?
100
Tools and units used to measure mass, length, volume, and temperature.
What are a balance or spring scale-grams, a ruler or meter stick-centimeters, meters, a graduated cylinder-milliliters or liters, and a thermometer-degrees celsius?
100
Unbalanced force causes this.
What is motion?
200
An anemometer.
What is a tool that measures wind speed and direction?
200
Rusting, decaying, cooking, and burning are examples of what kind of change?
What is a chemical change?
200
Five classifications of vertebrate animals. Give an example of each.
What are mammals-dog, birds-duck, fish-salmon, reptile-lizard, and amphibian-frog?
200
The unit used to measure work.
What is a newton?
200
The reason we see different constellations throughout the year and the reason the stars seem to move across the sky at night.
What is the Earth is revolving around the Sun, and the Earth is rotating on it's axis.?
300
Factors that affect temperature and precipitation in different climate zones.
What are latitude, elevation, and proximity to bodies of water?
300
Four ways solids can be separated in a mixture.
What is size, shape, color, and magnetism?
300
The part of a plant that is most like the skeletal system of an animal.
What is the stem?
300
Taking a survey or organizing evidences is an example of what step in the Scientific Method?
What is data collection?
300
Name 5 of 7 natural resources found in Florida.
What are water, phosphate, oil, limestone, silica, wind, and solar energy?
400
The difference between a cloud that looks like white cotton balls and signals fair weather and a cloud that looks like gray cotton balls and signals possible severe weather
What is a cumulus cloud and a cumulonimbus cloud?
400
Three factors that will speed up or slow down the process of dissolving.
What is temperature, stirring, and surface area?
400
Stages of complete and incomplete metamorphosis.
What are egg, larva, pupa, and adult? What are egg, nymph, adult?
400
A way to verify the results of an experiment.
What is replicate the experiment and obtain the same results.
400
Five physical properties of minerals.
What are cleavage, color, hardness, luster, and streak?
500
Weathering and erosion.
What is the difference between breaking down of rock by wind, water, ice, temperature change, and plants and the movement of rock by gravity, wind, water, and ice?
500
The three ways light can be transmitted.
What is reflected, refracted, or absorbed?
500
Explain the difference between an inherited behavior and a learned behavior, and give an example of each.
What is a behavior passed from a parent to an offspring (a duck quacking), and a behavior aquired by imitation (a duck migrating)?
500
In an experiment, it is always linked to your conclusion.
What is data, or verifiable evidence.
500
The flow of electricity requires these things.
What is a metal conductor, power source, load, and a closed circuit?
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