Solar power, hydropower, wind power
What is renewable energy?
This is the fifth and largest planet from the sun?
Jupiter
Consumers in a food web
What are herbivore, omnivore, and carnivore
Organisms that make their own food
producers
The energy source of a food web or food chain
What is the sun?
means natural substance that is not replenished (oil, coal) takes millions of years to form
Non renewable
Light rays bouncing off a smooth, shiny surface is called
Reflection
This is NOT a resource that both plants and animals need to survive
What is shelter?
When light is blocked/stopped. Causes shadows.
What is absorbed?
mushrooms, fungi, bacteria, earthworms
What are decomposers?
A material that allows heat or electrical energy to pass through it easily
Conductor
If there is a change to the environment or ecosystem an organism will?
Migrate
Adapt
Die
Takes the shape of its container
What are liquid and gas?
A living thing that must eat other organisms to obtain energy necessary for life
What is a consumer?
Which process will happen when the sun interacts with the ocean?
F Rain will fall only on the land.
G Water will not evaporate at nighttime.
H Salt water will become fresh water vapor.
J Precipitation will happen less often.
H Salt water will become fresh water vapor.
Water vapor cools to form liquid water
What is condensation?
The niche of a barracuda and great white shark
What is predator?
when a liquid changes to a gas it is called
Evaporation
Tool used to find the mass of an object
A balance scale or triple beam balance
How many days does it take for the lunar (moon) cycle?
1000 BONUS points if you can name the whole cycle in order (open to any team!)
28-30 days or 1 month
New Moon, Waxing Crescent, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon
Waning Gibbous, Last Quarter, Waning Crescent
Material that does not allow heat or electricity to pass through easily.
Insulator
What are the 3 types of Fossil Fuels?
Coal
Natural Gas
Oil
A group of students at a park used a collecting net to capture several insects. The teacher transferred the insects to small terrariums that allowed the students to observe the insects before releasing them outside. Each of the following characteristics is likely an inherited trait EXCEPT —
A a fly’s missing antenna
B a butterfly’s black-and-yellow stripes
C a dragonfly’s two sets of wings
D a beetle’s green spots
A a fly’s missing antenna
Students observe a glass of ice and water. The glass is dry on the outside. After ten minutes students see drops of water on the outside of the glass.
What is condensation?
How long does it take for Earth to orbit the sun? What is this process called for 100 Bonus points.
365 days
The cause of the sun moving across the sky, creating day and night
What is the Earth is rotating on its axis?
The cause of water evaporating off the sidewalk
What is thermal energy from the environment?
When a gas(water vapor) changes to a liquid it is called
Condensation
The causes the four seasons (fall, winter, spring, and summer)
What is the earth revolves around the sun and the axis is tilted.
Which of the following explains the life cycle of a butterfly?
A fertilization and germination
B complete metamorphosis
C incomplete metamorphosis
D pollination and fertilization
B complete metamorphosis
Conditions that change from day to day
What is weather?
What are the 4 types of precipitation?
Rain, Snow, Sleet, and Hail
A glacier picks up a rock and moves the rock and bits of sediment
What is erosion?
The Sun rises in the _____ and sets in the ______
What is East - West
What are the 4 parts of the Water Cycle?
Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation, and Runoff
long term weather patterns (Year to Year)
What is climate?
A plant or animal that breaks down dead organisms is called
decomposer
Ingredients necessary for a plant to undergo photosynthesis
What are Carbon Dioxide, Sunlight, and Water
Eric is making a recipe and heated some butter. The physical property of the butter demonstrated
What is melting?
Which organ sends instructions to your body on how to think about and answer these questions?
Brain
Takes 1 day/24 hours, the Earth spins on its axis
Rotation
Rock/sediments moved or carried away due to wind, water, or ice
What is erosion
For a class demonstration a student turned off the lights in the classroom. The student then shined light from a flashlight through a hole in a piece of cardboard. The class saw the narrow beam of light continue until another student placed a mirror in the light’s path. The light did not continue past the mirror because —
What is light travels in a straight line and cannot go around objects?
The dropping or deposit of sediment in a new place. Example: wind can drop sand to form a sand dune.
Deposition
A moth uses its antennae. A dog uses its nose. What do both the antennae and the nose do?
A breathe air
B sense odors
C identify tastes
D feel temperature
B sense odors
Coal, Oil, Natural Gas,
What are nonrenewable resources?
The times you repeat the exact same experiment
What are repeated trials?
Mixture or solution? A combination of 2 or more substances that keep its physical properties. It can easily be separated. (Example:Oil and Water or a salad)
Mixture
The mnemonic device (sentence) to remember the planets order
What is My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos?
Which of these objects is most likely NOT found in our solar system?
A asteroid
B planet
C North Star
D. Halley's Comet
C North Star
only 1 star in our solar system