Matter
Energy
Earth
Space
Plants
Ecosystems
100
What state of matter will a substance if the substance is MELTED?
What is a liquid?
100
Thermal energy likes to balance itself out and can flow between objects and maintain thermal equilibrium (both objects reach the same temperature). Does thermal energy move from cold objects to warm objects or warm objects to cold objects?
What is thermal energy moves from warm objects to cold objects?
100
What is the process of parent rock breaking down into smaller pieces of sediment called?
What is weathering?
100
This is the force that holds the planets in our solar system together...
What is gravity?
100
Plants make and store energy in this...
What is sugar or glucose?
100
Why are plants known as producers?
What is because plants produce sugar or glucose?
200
What will happen to an object if it has a density LESS than 1.0 g/mL and it's placed in water?
What is float?
200
An insulator is any material or object that does not allow heat or electricity to pass through it easily. Name 3 types of insulators?
What is anything plastic, foam, wool, paper, glass, cotton, rubber, fabric, ceramic, etc...
200
This is the thickest layer of the Earth...
What is the mantle?
200
What technology would be MOST useful to study galaxies far, far away? A telescope, space probe, or space shuttle?
What is a telescope?
200
Plants reacting to their environment is like when plants lean towards a light source is called...
What is a tropism?
200
How do consumers get energy?
What is eating?
300
Atoms and matter make up everything. However, in order to truly know if a substance is made of matter it MUST do both of these 2 things...
What is have both mass (made of particles) and volume (takes up space)?
300
The height of a wave determines how much energy the wave has and is called this...
What is amplitude?
300
Describe the flow of magma in the mantle...
There are convection currents in the mantle. Hot magma near the core and rises towards the crust. When it cools near the crust, it sinks back towards the core.
300
Name the four INNER planets in order...
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
300
Why do plants make flowers?
What is to REPRODUCE or MAKE SEEDS?
300
If the environment changes rapidly and living things can't adapt, what will happen to that species?
What is go extinct or die out?
400
Two or more atoms chemically bonded to each other are known as these...
What are molecules?
400
When heat or thermal energy is applied to an object, its atoms or molecules begin to speed up and spread out. This process of atoms spreading out and taking up more space is known as this science phenomena...
What is expansion or thermal expansion?
400
Where do we find most of the volcanoes and earthquakes on planet Earth?
Near tectonic plate boundaries.
400
Name the four OUTER planets in order...
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
400
What is the main job or function in a plants leaves?
What is photosynthesis?
400
What do the arrows in a food web or food chain represent?
What is energy flowing through an ecosystem?
500
The above glasses have different amounts of water. However, the boiling point, melting point, freezing point, and density of the water in the two cups are the same. What are the properties of matter called that DO NOT change when the amount of the substance changes?
What are size INDEPENDENT properties?
500
This type of circuit has multiple paths electricity can flow through, which means if one part of the circuit breaks the rest of the components should still be able to work...
What is a parallel circuit?
500
The decomposed remains of plants and animals add nutrients back to the soil making it more fertile. What is this type of MATTER called?
What is ORGANIC MATTER?
500
The strength of a gravitational force is affected by what TWO things?
What is MASS and DISTANCE?
500
These type of plants have specialized tubes to move water, sugar, and nutrients to all of the cells in a plant...
What are vascular plants?
500
List some defining ABIOTIC FACTORS of a desert ecosystem...
What are hot temperatures, little water, and lots of sunlight?
600
Describe how a thermometer works...
When a thermometer is placed in a hot or cold substance, the atoms or particles in the red liquid will move faster and EXPAND or cool down and CONTRACT.
600
Do sound waves move the fastest through a solid, liquid, or gas and why?
What is through a solid because the particles in a solid are more dense and the shorter distance allows sound waves (longitudinal waves are just particles bumping into each other) to move faster.
600
Name the moon phase and type of eclipse that occur at position number 1...
What is a NEW MOON & SOLAR ECLIPSE?
600
Name a major breakthrough or discovery made by the historic Hubble Space Telescope...
Hubble discovered millions of galaxies that had planets orbiting stars, flipping our understanding of the universe upside down. Hubble also confirmed that our universe is expanding and figure out how fast galaxies are moving apart.
600
What is the equation for photosynthesis?
Carbon Dioxide (CO2) + Water (H2O) + Sunlight ->
Glucose (C6H12O) + Oxygen (O2)
600
When living things get sugar, what process is used to break sugar down and release energy?
What is cellular respiration?