Energy
What is the type of energy that travels through transparent objects?
Light energy
What is the force that causes objects to fall toward the Earth?
Gravity
What causes day and night on Earth?
The Earth's rotation
When a year has passed, the Earth has completed one what around the Sun?
Revolution/orbit
What property of matter defines whether it can float or sink in water?
Density
What effect will water have on a ray of light
It will refract it
Which force would be responsible for a marble slowing down as it moves along the ground?
Friction
What is the primary reason for the change of seasons on Earth?
The tilt of the Earth on its axis
What is the 6th planet from the Sun?
Saturn
When you combine salt and iron filings, you can separate them again with a magnet. The reason you can easily separate these two substances is because they formed a ____?
Mixture
A battery stores what kind of energy within it?
Chemical Energy
If a ball is sitting motionless, what force is acting on it?
Equal forces
What is the term for the consistent weather patterns in a particular area over a long period of time?
Climate
What is the last of the inner planets?
Mars
After stirring salt into water, it seems to disappear. Which property is being demonstrating?
Soluability
When conducting a test that includes multiple batteries, light bulbs, wires and switches, a student notices that when they open one switch, one of the light bulbs turns off, but none the the others do. What kind of circuit did this student create?
Parallel Circuit
When at the lowest point while swinging on a swing, you will have the lowest amount of what?
Potential energy
Water vapor loses energy and begins to changes back into liquid water. What phase of the water cycle does this describe?
Condensation
What causes the phases of the moon?
The revolution/orbit of the moon around Earth
What property of matter do all of the following have in common? Cotton rope, rubber gloves, wood popsicle stick, plastic bottle and Styrofoam packaging
They are all insulators
What energy transformation occurs when you rub your hands together to warm them?
Kinetic or mechanical energy is transformed into heat energy
When conducting an experiment, if you change the type of surface a ball is dropped on each trial, the type of surface in the experiment represents which type of variable?
Independent Variable
If a long shadow of a building is being cast in a Western direction, what time of day is it?
Early morning/sunrise
Which moon phase is depicted when only the left half of the moon is visible from Earth?
Last Quarter Moon
What property of matter describes the amount of space an object or substance takes up?
Volume