Physical Science
What are the three states of Matter?
Solid, Liquid, and Gas
Plants get the materials they need for growth mainly from these two things; they are: ____ and ____
Air and water
What time during the day is your shadow the shortest/smallest?
Noon
What are the three types of rocks called?
Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic
What do you call energy from the sun?
Solar Energy/radiation
Shamma 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?
Iron filings
What is the scientific process when plants take matter that is not food (light, air, water, and soil) and turn it in to matter that is food?
Photosynthesis
Lakes, rivers, glaciers, ground water, and polar ice caps are all examples of?
fresh water around the world.
Describe a sedimentary rock.
Sedimentary rocks have different layers.
What is the breaking down of rocks?
Weathering
Fill in the blank:
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
small
If you go far enough down the food chain, food of almost any kind of animal can be traced back to _____.
(Producers) plants
Where is most of the Earth's water found?
Oceans
There are three parts of soil. Sand, clay, and gravel. Which type of soil would absorb the most water after a thunderstorm?
Clay
The dropping off of weathered rock at the end of erosion.
Deposition
What is the energy in animals' food that is used for body repair, growth, motion, and to maintain body warmth was once energy from this.
The Sun
What is the process that eventually restores (recycles) some materials back to the soil after a plant or animal's death?
Decomposition
What do the Orbit of Earth around the Sun.
The moon's orbit around Earth
The rotation of Earth about an axis all have in common?
Observable patterns? (day and night; daily changes in the length and direction of shadows; different positions of the sun, moon, and stars at different times of the day, month, and year)
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
Insulator
Regardless of the type of change that occurs when heating, cooling, or mixing substances, the total weight of matter is _______.
conserved? (stays the same)
What is the name of newly introduced species that can damage or throw off the balance of an ecosystem.
Invasive species
The sun is a star that appears larger and brighter than other stars because it is _____.
closer to Earth than other stars
What kind of rock comes from a volcano?
Igneous
A property of matter that tells whether an object has a positive or negative charge.
Electrical charge