What causes the change in daylight throughout the seasons?
100
This tool is used to measure the mass of a rock.
What is a balance?
100
Students group leaves by shape.
What is classifying?
200
The reason a polar bear has white fur.
What is camouflage?
200
The item fills up and takes the shape of the entire container.
What is a gas?
200
This object in our solar system reflects light and is a satellite orbiting around one planet?
What is the moon?
200
Bob Armstrong is a naturalist in town who continues to ask questions and learn about the insects, birds, and plants in the Juneau area. This trait or quality keeps him interested in many things.
What is curiosity?
300
The webbing between a bird's toes.
What is used for swimming?
300
Water drops form outside a glass of ice water.
What is water vapor condensing into a liquid?
300
Alaska and the Northern Hemisphere are tilted away from the sun in winter.
What causes short daylight hours in Alaska's winter?
300
This container is used to measure liquid volume in science experiments.
What is a graduated cylinder?
300
Nicole found the size of her balloons while doing her experiment.
What is measuring?
400
Sharp talons.
What are used for capturing prey?
400
Air is a mixture of gases.
What is a property of matter?
400
This part of the rock cycle causes rocks to break apart.
What is weathering and erosion.
400
A student needs a tool to help count the segments on a dragonfly antennae.
What is a hand lens?
400
Sometimes science discoveries help explain how things work.
What is a positive effect?
500
Animals get energy from the things they eat. For example insects get energy from plants, salmon get energy from insects, and bears get energy from salmon.
What is the direction energy moves through the food chain?
500
This mixture will spread out to completely fill a larger container.
What is a gas?
500
The closest star to Earth.
What is the sun?
500
The student chooses the best tool study the rings on a fish scale.
What is a microscope?
500
Students look at the bones and tusks left behind by a mammoth.