Astronomy
This is the closest star to Earth.
What is the sun?
Meaning, “fire,” these rocks come from solidified lava.
What are Igneous rocks?
What is a force?
This is a term that means a push or a pull.
Burning, rusting, and digesting are examples of this type of change.
What is chemical change?
This phylum contains all animals with true backbones.
What is phylum chordata?
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What is vertebrata?
This is any object orbiting a celestial body is space.
What is a satellite.?
This is when soil and rocks are carried away by wind, water, or animal activity.
What is erosion?
What is mass?
This is how much physical matter an object has, and determines its weight.
This subatomic particle has no mass.
What is an electron?
These plants have seeds that are not enclosed in fruit.
What are the gymnosperms?
This is a term to describe planets outside of our solar system.
What is an exoplanet?
This is the name of the supercontinent when all 7 continents were connected.
What is Pangea?
This type of electromagnetic radiation has the shortest wavelength, and therefore the highest frequency on the electromagnetic spectrum.
What are gamma rays?
These three metals are the only elements that are attracted to magnets.
What are iron, nickel, and cobalt?
This phylum contains class insecta and class arachnida, among others.
What is phylum arthropoda?
This is the most volcanically active body in the solar system.
What is Io?
This type of map shows the elevation and topography of an area using contour lines.
What is a topographic map?
This law of physics states that the acceleration of an object depends on the object’s weight, and how much force is applied to it.
What is Newton’s Second Law of Motion?
This type of electromagnetic radiation has the shortest wavelength, and therefore the highest frequency on the electromagnetic spectrum.
What are gamma rays?
These cousins of the sea star have long, spindly limbs and distinct central discs.
What are the brittle stars?
This is the only planet in our solar system that spins clockwise.
What is Venus?
These circular currents are caused by hot fluid rising, and cooler liquid sinking.
What are convection currents?
This law of physics states that as the speed of a fluid increases, the pressure of that fluid decreases.
What Bernouli's Principle?
This type of reaction is when the atoms of an element break apart to form simpler elements.
What is nuclear fission?
These organisms consume other organisms as food.
What are heterotrophs?