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This type of question can be answered by conducting an experiment.
What is a testable question?
This galaxy contains Earth.
What is the Milky Way?
This state of matter has a definite shape and volume.
What is a solid?
This part of a plant takes in water from the ground
What is the root?
These three types of rocks are formed in different ways: by lava, by pressure, or by layers.
What are igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks?
This group in an experiment doesn’t receive the variable being tested.
What is the control group?
The Moon orbits this object.
What is the Earth?
This form of energy can be turned into light, sound, or heat.
What is electrical energy?
These are traits that help plants or animals survive in their environment.
What are adaptations?
This force pulls everything toward the center of the Earth.
What is gravity?
This term explains why scientists must be able to redo each other’s experiments.
What is replicability?
Rocks form from these basic building blocks.
What are minerals?
These materials let heat or electricity pass through easily.
What are conductors?
This process shows how energy moves from the Sun to animals.
What is a food chain?
These parts of a flower help the plant reproduce.
What are the pistil and stamen?
Observing, predicting, and inferring are three of these in science.
What are types of scientific thinking or investigation skills?
In this process, water changes from liquid to gas.
What is evaporation?
What type of circuit is needed for electricity to flow?
What is a closed circuit?
This organ pumps blood through the human body
What is the heart?
This term describes when heat moves from a warmer object to a cooler one
What is heat transfer?
You use this skill when you look at data from multiple trials to support a conclusion.
What is interpreting data?
These two natural forces break down and move rocks.
What are weathering and erosion?
This is how you calculate the speed of an object.
What is distance divided by time?
These two things can shape animal behavior.
What are heredity and learning?
These changes in Florida plants and animals occur with the seasons and can differ from other parts of the country.
What are seasonal changes?