Digging In
To rest on top of a liquid, to be carried along by moving water.
What is float?
The amount of "stuff" something contains - we knew that air had ________ when we filled the red kickball up with air.
What is mass?
Scientists use these to study locations on Earth.
What are maps?
What is a globe?
The study of how plants and animals, including humans, interact with one another and the physical environment.
What is ecology? or
What is ecologist?
A value that lies outside most of the other values in a set of data.
What is an outlier?
The amount of matter in a given amount of space.
What is density?
Solid, liquid, gas and plasma are examples of this.
What are states of matter?
These are the layers of the planet Earth (must name 2).
What are the crust, lithosphere, asthenosphere, upper mantle, lower mantle, outer core, and inner core?
What is a pH of 6-7?
Something that is made to look, feel, or behave like something else especially so that it can studied or used to train people. Scientists create and run __________ to reinact and study things too big, small, far away, or dangerous.
What is simulations?
The upward push that keeps an object floating in liquid. The ability of an object to float in water.
What is buoyant force? or What is buoyancy?
What are oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, argon, neon gas, helium gas, hydrogen gas, and methane gas? Also, what is water vapor?
What is the epicenter?
These three things are needed for photosynthesis.
What are carbon dioxide, water, sunlight, soil, and nutrients.
A tool used to make particles/organisms bigger in order to study them
What is a magnifying glass?
What is a microscope?
The difference between magma and lava is this.
Describe combustion.
What is the process of burning and the reaction of a fuel with oxygen that produces light and heat.
The 3 different kinds of volcanoes.
What are Cinder Cone Volcanoes, Shield Volcanoes, and Stratovolcanoes?
These are species that make their own food.
What are producers?
A claim made by a scientist that is accepted when the evidence has been tested, examined, and verified many times by many different scientists.
What is a theory?
The breaking down of rocks into smaller pieces by natural processes and the process in which soil and other particles are moved from one place to another is this.
What is the difference between weathering and erosion?
The major contributors to air pollution (must name 5).
These are the processes within Earth that cause geologic activity.
What are plate tectonics?
Ecosystems and food chains can be greatly impacted (negatively or positively) by any of these factors (must name 5)
What are water quality, pollution, fertilizer runoff, viruses, changes in climate, deforestation, change of habitat, planting of native grasses and trees, increase in population of a particular species, decrease in population of a particular species, drought, precipitation, etc?
This is what all scientists should be able to do on the job (list 5).
What is have fun, ask questions, collaborate with other scientists, read, research, create new solutions, create new inventions, discover, share their findings, and love science?