Life Science
This process allows plants to make their own food using sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide?
What is photosynthesis?
The layer of rock that we live on, made of solid rock.
What is the crust?
What are solid, liquid, and gas?
The first step of the scientific method where you notice something interesting.
What is observation?
This tool is used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
The basic unit of all living things
What is a cell?
This type of cloud is puffy, white, and looks like cotton balls on a sunny day.
What are cumulus clouds?
This type of energy is stored energy, like a stretched rubber band.
What is potential energy?
An educated guess about what you think will happen in an experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
This tool makes small objects look bigger so you can see details.
What is a microscope?
This body system includes your heart, blood vessels, and blood, and it moves nutrients throughout your body?
What is the circulatory system?
The process by which rocks are broken down into smaller pieces by wind, water, and ice.
What is weathering?
When you mix baking soda and vinegar it bubbles, this type of change has occurred.
What is a chemical change?
The part of an experiment that you change on purpose to test your hypothesis.
What is the independent variable?
This tool measures the mass of an object.
What is a balance or scale?
The process by which organisms with favorable traits are more likely to survive and reproduce?
What is natural selection?
These are formed when tectonic plates collide and push rock upward.
What are mountains?
This law states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only changed from one form to another.
What is the law of conservation of energy?
Information you collect during an experiment using your senses or tools.
What are observations or data?
This tool is used to measure the volume of liquids accurately.
What is a graduated cylinder?
This type of relationship benefits both organisms involved, like bees pollinating flowers while getting nectar?
What is mutualism?
This scale measures the magnitude of earthquakes and goes from 1 to 10.
What is the Richter scale?
The force that opposes motion when two surfaces rub against each other.
What is friction?
A scientific explanation that has been tested many times and is widely accepted by scientists.
What is a theory?
This tool measures atmospheric pressure and helps predict weather changes?
What is a barometer?