Kindergarten: Senses & Living Things
You feel warmth or cold with this sense.
What is the sense of touch?
The four parts of the year: spring, summer, fall, and what else?
What is winter?
A group of living things in an area that interact with each other and their surroundings.
What is an ecosystem?
The invisible push or pull that can make things move—this is called what?
What is force?
The system of poles and wires that deliver electricity to homes is called?
What is the power grid?
Plants and animals need water, food, and this to survive.
What is air?
A material made of two or more things mixed together, but you can still see the parts.
What is a heterogeneous mixture?
A raised area on Earth’s surface shaped by wind or water over time.
What is a landform?
A tool that gives an advantage with a pivot point, like a seesaw—what is it?
What is a lever?
Dams on rivers store water to generate what type of energy?
What is hydroelectric energy?
You can sort objects by their smoothness or roughness—this property is called what?
What is texture?
A material that's the same all the way through, like pure sugar—this is a ____?
What is a pure substance?
A stable home for animals and plants within an ecosystem, like a pond or forest.
What is a habitat?
A resource that can be used again and again, like trees—this is ____?
What is a renewable resource?
The daily movement of the sun across the sky is caused by Earth doing this.
What is rotating (or Earth’s rotation)?
When you push or pull a toy car, you demonstrate this physical action.
What is force?
You can sort materials by whether they’re wood, metal, or cloth—this property is called what?
What is material type or property?
The rise and fall of ocean water due to the moon’s gravity is called what?
What are tides?
A resource that cannot easily be replaced, like coal—this is ____?
What is a non-renewable resource?
When the moon passes between the sun and Earth, this happens.
What is a solar eclipse?
Plants and animals changing with the seasons is an example of what?
What is seasonal change?
Changes in weather like rain or snow repeated over the year define this pattern.
What is a weather pattern?
The variety of different animals and plants in an area is known as what?
What is biodiversity?
The force that pulls everything toward Earth is called what?
What is gravity?
The cycle of water evaporating, condensing, and falling as rain is called the?
What is the water cycle?