Physical Science
An invisible force that pulls objects down towards the planet's center.
What is gravity?
The category of organism that breaks down all animal and plant matter
What are decomposers?
This star appears very large and bright because it is closer to us than other stars.
What is the sun?
This structure helps move objects from a tall position to a lower position with ease
What is a ramp?
Bees have a critical role in helping plants to survive and to populate using this process: __________
What is pollination?
True or False: The amount (weight) of matter stays the same when it changes states. For example, a melted ice cube will weigh the same as the solid ice cube.
What is True. This is called conservation of matter
In order to survive, animals need ________, ______, _____.
What is food, water, shelter, air (name 3)?
The bones or imprint of an animal left in the layers of the earth
What are fossils?
This structure is built to allow passage over a river or stream
What is a bridge?
An organism that only eats plants
What is an herbivore?
When two objects collide, there is a ________ of ________ from one object to another. This can cause the objects to change direction.
What is a transfer of energy?
Plants get their materials from growth mainly from the ____ and _____.
What is air and water?
One is the short term conditions in an area, and the other is how the term for the conditions over a long period of time
What are weather and climate?
This is the word for the things that limit you in an engineering challenge. For example, time, amount of materials, height.
What are constraints?
DAILY DOUBLE: The interactions between many different food chains is called this: ___________
What is a food web?
Energy can be transformed into __________, __________, or __________
What are sound, light, heat, motion
The characteristics that give animals their features.
What are traits?
This is the process when rock and sediment are moved by wind and water
What is erosion?
This is the word for the things that you must have in engineering challenge. For example,a certain height, a certain width
What are criteria?
When water vapor (gas) changes state to a liquid (droplets), the process is called _________
What is an condensation?
Waves of the same type can differ in _________ and __________.
What are amplitude (height) and wavelength (distance between peaks)
Biotic and Abiotic are known as the _______ and _________ factors in communities of organisms.
What are living and non-living?
These are the 4 spheres of the Earth that interact with each other
What are the geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere and biosphere?
These are the things that might change from one experiment to another. They do not stay the same.
What are variables?
The hottest layer of the earth
What is the inner core?