Tools
Inquiry
Life Science
Earth Science
Heat
100
tools that grasp or pick up small materials
What are forceps/tweezers?
100
to draw conclusions from data communicated in tables, graphs, and diagrams
What is infer?
100
a resting state that helps animals survive in winter
What is hibernation?
100
the remains of a living thing that lived long ago that has turned to rock
What is a fossil?
100
materials that allow heat to move easily through them and from one object to another through direct contact
What is a conductor?
200
a tool that produces vibrations when struck appropriately
What is a tuning fork?
200
something that shows collected data in chart form
What is a table?
200
physical adaptations such as quills and claws, and behavioral adaptations such as taking flight, tricking (mimicry, playing dead), spraying or fighting to protect themselves from being hurt, killed or eaten
What is a defense mechanism?
200
a cavity or opening in a rock that has the shape of once living thing
What is a mold fossil?
200
materials that do not allow heat to move easily through them
What are insulators?
300
a tool that measures volume of liquids
What is a graduated cylinder?
300
shows compared data
What is a graph?
300
the ability animals have to move around to find the resources they need for food, shelter, or space
What is locomotion?
300
a mold that has been filled in with sediments which harden and take the shape of the once living thing
What is a cast fossil?
300
rubbing, burning and using electricity
What ways to produce heat?
400
a tool that measures volume of liquid that has a plunger
What is a graduated syringe?
400
a graphic representation of an observation, relationship, comparison, or conclusion
What is a diagram?
400
the movement of animals over the same route in the same season each year to take advantage of resources (like food or water) in one location when they run low in another location
What is migration?
400
actual parts of the living thing such as shells, bones, or teeth that have turned to stone
What are preserved parts?
400
metal objects
What are good conductors?
500
a measurement tool that can be used to measure the length, width, or height of an object or the distance between two objects
What is a meter tape or meter stick?
500
an explanation made without having actually observed the object or event based on data, previous experience or prior knowledge
What is an inference?
500
animals have special structures used for getting food, for example the beaks of birds, mouths of insects, teeth, claws that are shaped in different ways depending on the type of food they eat
What is food obtainment?
500
tree sap that has hardened to rock
What is amber?
500
plastic and wood
What is materials that are insulators?