Life Science
This organ system controls and coordinates your body’s responses. What is the name of the system?
nervous system
What do you call the phenomenon when the moon orbits the Earth, causing these repeating shapes?
Moon Phases
Turning on a light bulb transforms electrical energy into this type of energy. What do you call this type of energy?
Light energy
On the energy pyramid, what do we call plants?
Hint: predator, consumer, producer
producer
"Noticing that iodine turns a potato black." This state represents the process of the science study called?
Observation
What do we call the tiny structures inside cells that contain hereditary information?
DNA or Genes
In which direction does the sun move across the sky from sunrise to sunset?
Hint: using the North, East, South, or West
East to West
What do we call the process that transfers heat through rising warm air and sinking cool air?
Convection
What is the original source of energy for most food webs?
The sun
What do we call when putting objects into groups based on shared traits?
Classification
When the woodpeckers have different-sized beaks to pick up their food or Polar bears have thick fur to live in the North Pole, what do we call this?
Biological Adaptation
What is an eclipse?
when the Moon moves into Earth’s shadow
What do we get when a battery is placed in a circuit to provide this essential part?
energy or power source
What do we call a group of the same species living in one area?
A population
In an experiment, what do we call the factor you change on purpose?
Hint: IV or DV
Independent Variable
What do we call it when a species cannot survive in a changing environment?
Hint: no more dinosaur
Extinction
How does an earthquake happen?
Hint: something with tectonic plates
Tectonic plates movements
What is one property that solid and liquid have in common?
Hint: when you measure a bucket of sand and a bucket of water
Volume
What do we call when long-term process turns a burned forest into a mature forest again?
Ecological succession
If you need to test the water quality in a stream, what should you do to get the result?
Collect the water, then test it out with science tools.
In sexual reproduction, what percentage of a baby receives from each parent?
50 %
When the altitude increases, what happens to the air pressure?
Hint: opposite
Decreases
In a ramp experiment, what type of surface requires the most force to move an object?
Hint: think of the texture of the surface
rough surface
What happens to the population when the resources decrease?
The population will also decrease
In science inquiry, what is the control group?
The group in an experiment that does NOT receive the treatment or is just to support the process