Physical Science
What are the three states of Matter?
All living things must meet these criteria ......
Reproduce, have cell growth, require energy (food), interact with their environment.
where are the oldest fossil found?
in the deepest layer
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?
Lakes, rivers, glaciers, ground water, and polar ice caps are all examples of this.
What is fresh water around the world.
Describe a sedimentary rock.
Sedimentary rocks have different layers.
What is the breaking down of rocks?
What is Weathering?
Burning a piece of wood is an example of this type of reaction: chemical or physical.
Chemical reaction, atoms are rearranged, and the process is irreversible.
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?
Most of the Earth's water is found here.
What is the oceans?
Describe 2 pieces of evidence that support the theory that tectonic plates move
Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, sea floor spreading.
The dropping off of weathered rock at the end of erosion.
What is deposition?
What causes Ocean water to move?
This process eventually restores (recycles) some materials back to the soil after a plant or animal's death. Detritivores do this.
What is decomposition?
name 3 different types of tides
Spring, leap, neap,
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.
Name the 5 different types of fossils
Cast, mold, persevered (crystallization, amber, unaltered), carbonization, trace
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?
The sun is a star that appears larger and brighter than other stars because it is _____.
What is closer to Earth than other stars?
What kind of rock comes from a volcano?
What is Igneous?
how do you identify the number of neutrons in an atom?
subtract the mass number from the atomic number. mass - protons = neutrons