Properties of Matter
This is the physical state of water when it is frozen.
What is a solid?
This is the name for the process where energy changes from one form to another.
What is energy transformation?
This happens when light bounces off a shiny surface like a mirror.
What is reflection?
This is water that falls from the atmosphere to Earth’s surface as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation?
These are nonliving things in an ecosystem like sunlight, soil, and water.
What are abiotic factors?
This property tells whether a substance will dissolve in water.
What is solubility?
A battery powers a flashlight. First, the energy stored in the battery is this type.
What is chemical energy?
This is the bending of light as it passes from one material to another, like air to water.
What is refraction?
The sun provides energy that starts this continuous movement of water between the land, air, and oceans.
What is the water cycle?
This is the name for the place where an organism lives and gets everything it needs to survive, like food, water, and shelter.
What is a habitat?
You place a rock and a rubber ducky into water. The duck floats, and the rock sinks. What property are you testing?
What is relative density?
Put these in order: chemical energy → light energy → electrical energy.
What is chemical energy → electrical energy → light energy?
This happens when light is taken in by a material, like a black shirt in the sun
What is absorption?
This process happens when water vapor in the air cools down and turns into liquid water, forming clouds.
What is condensation?
If you created a model with reindeer moss, Arctic hares, caribou, and wolves, what would your model represent?
What is a food web?
You measured an object to be 3 cm tall, 2 cm wide, and 4 cm long. Use these measurements to find the object's volume.
What is 24 cubic centimeters?
You turn on a microwave to heat popcorn. What types of energy transformations are happening?
What are electrical energy transforming into thermal (heat) energy and sound energy?
You place a pencil in a cup of water and it looks bent. What is this an example of?
What is refraction?
How does the sun cause water to move from oceans, lakes, and rivers into the air?
What is the sun provides heat energy that causes water to evaporate?
How might a drought affect both the plants and the animals in an ecosystem?
What is plants may die without water, and animals will have less food and water?
You tested four materials to see if they conduct electricity. Three did not light the bulb, but one made the bulb turn on. What property did the one successful material have?
What is it is a conductor of electrical energy?
You redesigned a flashlight to be brighter. You used two batteries and one LED. Explain why this worked.
What is: Two batteries provide more electrical energy, which transforms into more light energy, making the flashlight brighter?
Explain how sunglasses help your eyes in the sun using what you know about light.
What is sunglasses absorb some light to reduce glare and protect your eyes from bright sunlight?
A student sees water droplets forming on a cold soda can. How is this example similar to cloud formation?
What is the water vapor in the air cools and condenses into liquid water, just like it does to form clouds?
Make a claim about what would happen to a tundra food web if wolves disappeared. Support your answer with reasoning.
What is if wolves disappeared, herbivore populations like caribou might increase, leading to less vegetation and a disrupted food web?