Biology
Earth Science
Matter & Energy
Space and Earth
Watery Planet
100

Green plants get the energy they need to make food from this. 

What is the sun? 

100

The gases that surround Earth.

What is the atmosphere?
100

Anything that has mass and volume. 

What is matter?

100

The closest and brightest star in the sky. 

What is the sun? 

100

The place on Earth where the majority of the water is found. 

What is the ocean?

200
The sum of all living organisms on Earth.

What is the biosphere?

200

The process that occurs when the ocean waves remove sand from the beach.

What is erosion?

200

The state of matter that has a definite volume and definite shape.

What is a solid? 

200

During a sunny day, a shadow would be shortest at this time.

What is 12:00pm or noon?

200

The total amount of water on Earth.

What is the hydrosphere? 

300

These organisms break down dead plants and animals and recycle the nutrients back into the food chain. 

What are decomposers? 

300

A mountain range is part of this Earth system. 

What is the geosphere?

300

The state of matter that has a definite volume and takes the shape of its container.

What is a liquid? 

300

The force that attracts the Earth to the sun. 

What is gravity?

300

Rain, snow, sleet and hail that falls back to the Earth from the clouds.

What is precipitation? 

400

The animal that has that most varied diet.

What is an omnivore? 

400

These are evidence of organisms that lived in the past.

What are fossils?

400

The toaster uses this type of energy to produce heat. 

What is electrical energy? 

400

The movement of the sun that causes day and night. 

What is the Earth's rotation? 

400

On a humid summer day, a student notices that liquid water has formed on the outside of an ice-cold glass of lemonade. The liquid water came from which process in the water cycle.

What is condensation? 

500

The organisms that create their own food or energy.

What are producers?

500

The process of decomposing, breaking up, or changing the color of rocks. (Hint: mechanical and chemical ____________) 

What is weathering?

500

The type of energy needed to produce a shadow under a tree. 

What is light energy?

500

A star can appear in winter but not in summer because of this.

What is Earth's orbit or revolution? 

500

When an ice cube is taken out of a freezer and placed on the counter at room temperature its state of matter changes from one state to another.

What is from a solid to a liquid?