6th Grade Science
This is the term for a consumer who eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
Oxygen is produced by these living organisms.
What are plants?
Is the maximum number of valence electrons that an element can have
What is 8?
This is the name of the group on the periodic table that contains elements with full outer shells that are inert (unreactive).
What is the Noble Gases?
This is thing in an experiment that the scientist changes on purpose (the cause).
What is the independent variable?
This is the term for substances, such as carbon dioxide and methane, that trap heat in our atmosphere.
What is a "greenhouse gas?"
What is photosynthesis?
SI unit for force
What is Newton?
These are the negatively charged particles in an atom.
What are electrons?
588m = ? km (1,000 meters in 1 km)
.588 km
This is the difference between climate and weather.
What is a pattern versus a daily change?
These are at least 2 of the human systems.
respiratory
skeletal
digestive
endocrine
reproductive
excretory
nervous
immune
cardiovascular
integumentary
Matter is not created or destroyed
What is the Law of Conservation of Mass?
These two subatomic particles make up the mass of an atom.
What are protons and neutrons?
Is the element that comprises most of the mass of the sun
what is hydrogen?
These are at least 2 layers of the earth.
mantle
outer core
inner core
These are two differences between plant and animal cells (be specific).
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Is has the longest wavelength in the electromagnetic spectrum
what is radio wave?
This is the formula for speed.
What is distance / time?
They are loose collection of ice, dust, and small rocky particles whose orbits can be very long.
What is a comet?
Earth's atmosphere is composed of abut 78% of this element
What is nitrogen?
Organelle that is the powerhouse of the cell.
what is mitochondria?
Is the number of waves that pass a given point in a certain amount of time.
What is frequency?
These are all six simple machines.
What are pulley, screw, inclined plane, wedge, lever, and wheel and axle.
This planet is names after the Roman god of war.
What is Jupiter?