6th Grade
These are the three types of heat transfer.
What are conduction, convection and radiation?
In a food chain ________ are at the bottom and are the source for most of the energy transferred.
In a food chain producers are at the bottom and are the source for most of the energy transferred.
This law of motion states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton's 3rd Law of Motion?
This is a technique used by both predators and prey to conceal.
Camouflage.
This is the order of the terrestrial planets from closest to the sun to furthest.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
A roller coaster descending down a ramp and a soccer ball being kicked into a goal are examples of this type of energy.
What is kinetic energy?
Oxygen has the atomic number of 8 and the atomic weight of ~16.
What is the number of neutrons?
8 neutrons
Examples of this are pulled-back rubber bands or a roller coaster at the top of a hill.
What is potential energy?
There are two types of data. What is the type that is recorded numerically?
Quantitative data.
This is the order of the gas giant planet in order out from the sun.
What is Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
These are the 3 major "-TIONs" of the water cycle.
What are evaporation, condensation and precipitation?
This body system is responsible for providing support and structure.
Skeletal system.
This is what happens when two alike electrical charges or two alike poles are brought together.
What is repulsion?
The independent variable is plotted on the ___ axis.
The dependent variable is plotted on the ___ axis.
The independent variable is plotted on the X-axis.
The dependent variable is plotted on the Y-axis.
This is the outermost shell of an atom, where atomic bonding often happens.
What is the valence shell?
These 2 factors create deep ocean currents.
What is salinity and water temperature?
Name one organelle plant and animal cells have in common and one they do not have in common.
Mitochondria, Nucleus, Cytoplasm, Vacuole, Ribosome, Golgi Body, Endoplasmic Reticulum, Lysosome,
Cell Wall
These are created when the domains in a piece of iron align in the same direction.
What is a magnet?
This is a critical part to a graph/chart that identifies mixed data sets- often visually.
Key
Hydrogen has only one of these fundamental particles in its nucleus. It is the reason Hydrogen is 1 on the periodic table.
What is a proton?
This is the way heat transfers between two objects of different temperatures.
What is from hot to cold?
These are the 3 types of rocks in the rock cycle.
Igneous
Metamorphic
Sedimentary
This is the height of a wave and measures how much power the wave has.
What amplitude?
This law describes how earth is deposited over time with the oldest layers deeper down and younger near the surface.
Law of Superposition
The frequency of a wave traveling by a fixed point at a rate of 5000 waves per second.
What is 5000 Hertz (Hz)?
or
What is 5 kiloHertz (kHz)?
This is the effect a warm ocean current has on the land.
What is heating?
What are the 3 types of volcanoes?
Shield, composite, cinder cone.
This is the percent of offspring with the dominant trait with a cross of Ss and SS.
What is 100%?
For 2 weeks a scientist measures the growth of plants potted in different soils with varying fertilizer once a day.
What is the independent data? What is the dependent data?
Independent data: Soil with varying fertilizer
Dependent data: Plant growth
This distance can be measured from crest to crest, trough to though, or every 3 nodes. Its symbol is the Greek letter lambda.
What is wavelength?
These are observations scientists make that help prove or disprove our hypotheses.
What is evidence?
This occurs in plants and requires 3 reactants and produces 2 products.
What is the process? What are the reactants and products?
Process: Photosynthesis.
Reactants: Carbon Dioxide, Sunlight, Water
Products: Sugar and Oxygen
In order from largest to smallest, this is the next in order: cell, nucleus, chromosomes, DNA, __________.
What are genes?
In an ecosystem these are organisms that, when removed, cause a cascading negative affect.
Keystone species.
This is the net force and direction of a box being pulled with a force of 10N to the right and 12N to the left.
What is 2N to the left?