Life Science
Earth and Space Science
Physical Science
Scientific Skills and Instruments
Miscellaneous
100

The part of the cell that controls the cell’s activities.

What is the Nucleus?

100

The force that keeps planets in orbit around the Sun?

What is Gravity?

100

Anything that has mass and takes up space.

What is matter?

100

The tool that is used to measure temperature. 

What is a thermometer?

100

A type of adaptation that helps an animal blend into it's surroundings. 

What is camouflage?

200

The process that plants use to make their own food using sunlight. 

What is photosynthesis?

200

This is what causes day and night on Earth.

What is the Earth's Rotation?

200

The type of energy that can be stored. 

What is Potential Energy?

200

Information about the natural world that scientists use to support or refute a claim.

What is Evidence?

200

This force resists motion when two objects rub against each other. 

What is friction?

300

This is what we call animals that eat both plants and animals.

What is an Omnivore?

300

The layer of the Earth that is made of molten rock.

What is the Mantle?

300

Name two signs that a chemical reaction has occured. 

What is bubbles/fizzing, color change, temperature change, odor change, or the formation of a new solid?

300

The tool that is used to observe something that is too small to see with the naked eye. 

What is a Microscope?

300

The smallest unit of matter. 

What is an atom?

400

The system in the human body that is responsible for breathing.

 What is the respiratory system?

400

The type of rock that is formed from cooled lava or magma.

What is igneous rock?

400

The law that states energy can not be created or destroyed, only converted from one form to another. 

What is the Law of The Conservation of Energy?

400

The reason that repeated trials are important in experiments. 

What is to make the results more reliable?

400

This slow process breaks down rocks into smaller pieces without changing their composition.

What is Weathering?

500

This is the name for a group of the same type of organisms living in the same area.

What is a population?

500

This massive gassy planet is larger than any of the other planets combined.

What is Jupiter?

500

Name three of the four fundamental states of matter. 

What is a solid, a liquid, and a gas? The fourth is Plasma, Lightning is a form of Plasma. Plasma occurs at very high temperatures. 

500

A piece of science equipment that a biologist would use to grow and observe a bacterial culture.

What is a Petri Dish?

500

The term that describes the speed and direction of an object?

What is velocity?

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