Physical Science
What are the three states of Matter?
Plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from these two things.
What is air and water?
The sun is much larger than the moon. However, as viewed from Earth, the sun and moon appear to be the same size. Why do the sun and moon appear to be the same size when viewed from Earth?
A. The moon is much hotter than the sun.
B. The moon is much denser than the sun.
C. The moon is much brighter than the sun.
D. The moon is much closer to Earth than the sun.
D. The moon is much closer to Earth than the sun.
What are the three types of rocks called?
Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic
What do you call energy from the sun?
Casey is given a sample mixture containing calcium carbonate, glucose, iron filings, and silica sand. Which of the materials could be separated out with a magnet?
What are iron filings?
This scientific process is how plants take matter that is not food (light, air, water, and soil) and turn it in to matter that is food.
What is photosynthesis?
One physical property of a star is apparent magnitude. Which of the following is used in determining the apparent magnitude of a star?
The constellation the star is in
The distance the star is from Earth
The number of times the star rotates
The number of prominences the star makes
The distance the star is from Earth
Describe a sedimentary rock.
Sedimentary rocks have different layers.
What is the breaking down of rocks?
What is Weathering?
Adding air to expand a basketball and dissolving sugar in water are both examples that prove matter is made of particles that are too ______ to be seen
What is small?
If you go far enough down the food chain, food of almost any kind of animal can be traced back to _____.
What is (Producers) plants?
The law that states "Gravitational force increases as the mass of an object increases or as the distance between two objects decreases."
What is Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation
There are three parts of soil. Sand, clay, and gravel. Which type of soil would absorb the most water after a thunderstorm?
What is Clay?
The dropping off of weathered rock at the end of erosion.
What is deposition?
Energy in animals' food that is used for body repair, growth, motion, and to maintain body warmth was once energy from this.
What is the Sun?
This process eventually restores (recycles) some materials back to the soil after a plant or animal's death.
What is decomposition?
Objects located between orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
What are asteroids?
What is a nonrenewable resource? Give two examples.
A nonrenewable resource is a resource that cannot be replaced in our lifetime. Examples: (Fossil Fuels) Natural Gas, Coal, Oil.
Something that slows or stops the flow of energy, such as heat, electricity, or sound
What is an insulator?
Regardless of the type of change that occurs when heating, cooling, or mixing substances, the total weight of matter is _______.
What is conserved? (stays the same)
Newly introduced species can do this to the balance of an ecosystem.
What is damage it or throw it off?
Type of evidence acts as a record of changes in species over time and indicates major changes in Earth’s surface and climate
What the fossil record?
What kind of rock comes from a volcano?
What is Igneous?
A property of matter that tells whether an object has a positive or negative charge.
What is an electrical charge?