Properties of Matter
This science tool is used to measure mass.
What is triple-beam balance or two-pan balance?
This is a push or pull that causes an object to move, stop, or change direction.
What is force?
This is the amount of time it takes Earth to make one full rotation.
What is 24 hours or 1 day?
What powers the water cycle?
What is the sun?
This is the term for organisms that create their own food, typically through photosynthesis.
What are producers?
This is the amount of three-dimensional (3D) space an object takes up.
What is volume?
This is a type of non-contact force of attraction, most notably between objects with larger masses.
What is gravity?
This is what causes the day/night cycle and the apparent movement of the sun across the sky.
What is Earth's rotation?
This is the term for a liquid turning into a gas.
What is evaporation?
This is the term used for living components in an ecosystem. Some examples are leopards, orchids, mushrooms, and toucans.
What are biotic factors?
These are the three physical states of matter.
What is solid, liquid, and gas?
This is a contact force of resistance between objects that touch. This slows down or stops motion.
What is friction?
This is the cardinal direction that the sun sets.
This is the term for when vapor turns into a liquid. In the water cycle, it's the part that is responsible for clouds in our atmosphere.
What is condensation?
This is the term used for organisms in a food web that break down dead matter and help cycle matter back into Earth.
What are decomposers?
This is the acronym you can use to remember magnetic metals. Bonus points if you can name each metal in addition to the acronym.
(Steel, Iron, Nickel, Cobalt)
This type of force is equal in magnitude and opposite in direction. The net force (total sum of forces) is equal to zero.
What is balanced forces?
This is the time of day that shadows are typically the shortest.
What is noon or midday?
What is the ocean?
Beneficial or Harmful: releasing an invasive species, like Burmese pythons into the Everglades
What is harmful?
This explains whether an object sinks or floats compared to water or another substance.
What is relative density?
This is the type of variable that the scientist purposefully manipulates or changes in an experiment.
What is an independent variable?
This is the imaginary line on which Earth tilts that runs through Earth from the north to south pole. Bonus points if you can remember the angle (in degrees) of the tilt.
What is Earth's axis? (23.5 degrees)
List the steps of the water cycle, starting with evaporation.
What is evaporation/transpiration, condensation, precipitation, (runoff) accumulation and it starts over?
This is the term for the type of consumer who eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?