Energy
Between a slow-rolling baseball and a fast-thrown baseball, this one has the most energy.
What is the faster baseball?
This is the word for how tall or high a wave is.
What is amplitude?
Sharp thorns on a rose and a hard shell on a turtle are parts on the outside of a body used for this.
What is protection (or survival)?
When water freezes inside a rock crack and breaks the rock into smaller pieces, this process is happening.
What is weathering?
If you are testing how a ramp changes a toy car's speed, the ramp height is the thing you choose to change. This is called the...
What is the independent variable?
Electricity flows in a complete, unbroken loop called this.
What is a circuit?
To see an object, light must bounce off the object and enter our eyes. This bouncing is called...
What is reflection?
Coal and oil take millions of years to form. Because we can run out of them, they are called this type of resource.
What is nonrenewable?
When wind or water carries away loose sand and dirt to a brand new place, this process is happening.
What is erosion?
Scientists look at charts, graphs, and facts to prove their ideas. These facts are called...
What is evidence?
When a moving bumper car crashes into a stopped bumper car, this happens to the energy of the moving car.
What is it transfers (passes) its energy to the stopped car?
This is the distance from the top of one wave to the top of the very next wave.
What is wavelength?
When a deer hears a sound, its ears pick up the noise, but this inside organ figures out what the noise means.
What is the brain?
This special kind of map uses lines to show how tall, flat, or steep mountains and hills are.
What is a topographic map?
To keep a science test fair, the things you keep exactly the same are called this.
What are constants (or controlled variables)?
If you leave a metal spoon in hot soup, the spoon gets hot because of this type of energy moving through it.
What is heat?
An ocean wave with a very high amplitude will carry more energy, causing a floating toy duck to move up and down this way.
What is higher or further?
If you find a sea shell fossil in a dry South Carolina forest, it proves the land used to be covered by this long ago.
What is an ocean?
Planting grass or bushes on a dirt hill helps stop erosion because plant roots do this to the soil.
What is hold it in place?
Drawing a picture or building a miniature version of something to show how it works is making a...
What is a model?
A solar panel takes energy from the sun and changes it into this useful type of energy.
What is electricity (or electrical energy)?
Flashing a flashlight in a secret pattern (like SOS) across a dark room is a way to use light to send this.
What is a message (or information)?
Plants have tiny tubes inside them to move water up from the roots. These tubes are an inside part that helps the plant do this.
What is grow (or survive)?
Building a beach house on high stilts is a way humans protect their homes from this natural hazard.
What are floods (or hurricanes/storms)?
A toy car will slide much slower on carpet than on smooth plastic because carpet has more of this rubbing force.
What is friction?