The Nature of Science
What tool would you use to look at an item closer than your eyes can see?
Microscope
Define Transport
to move people or goods from one place to another
Define potential energy
The process of making sugar in plants
photosynthesis
Define ecosystem
all of the living and non living things in an environment and how they interact
What is the first step of the scientific method? (first step in science)
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Technology is the knowledge, processes, and products that....
Solve problems and/or make work easier
Potential or Kinetic
An apple falling out of a tree
kinetic
An animal with a backbone is called:
vertebrates
True or False
A volcanic eruption can rapidly change Earth's surface.
True
What tool would you use to look at the stars?
Telescope
True or False
The oven, microwave, fridge, and freezer are examples of technology.
True
Heat transfer through touch
conduction
taproot
Describe the difference between a flood and a drought
flood is water covering normally dry land and a drought is time without rainfall
Define Inquiry
Being curious and asking questions
Name an object that a model would be useful to learn more about
examples.. space ship, submarine, big items
Heat transfer through waves
radiation
Name 4 things you may inherit from your parents (no explanation on inherit, it is a vocab word)
examples: eye color, body shape, height, hair color, nose shape
Name three extinct animals
examples, t-rex, do do bird, wooly mammoth, saber tooth cats, brontosaurs
Organize the following data to show how many people like which fruit.
In Ms. Zacho's class, students were talking about their favorite fruit. Three people chose grapes, five people chose strawberries, four people chose watermelon, three people chose raspberries, and one person chose mango.
Students must show some kind of graph
Suppose you want to design a lunch bag that keeps yogurt cool and
protects it from getting squashed. What is the first step in the design
process? Complete the first step of the design process.
Here, the problem is that the yogurt is getting squished. The cooler bag does not protect the yogurt.
What heat transfer is showing:
A hot air balloon in the sky
convection
Describe a food chain in the ocean (4 items needed)
example: algae < minnows < clownfish < shark
Name the problem (vocab word) and name a solution
Your new neighbors at the cabin have a new wake boat. Now the waves roll in constantly, even when they aren't boating. The sand and rocks on your shore are being washed away.
erosion and building a water wall, bringing in big rocks
(not using the wake boat is not an option)