Out of This World (Earth & Space)
This is the center of our solar system, providing heat and light to Earth.
What is the Sun?
This is the basic structural and functional unit of all living organisms.
What is a cell?
The three primary states of matter commonly found on Earth.
What are solids, liquids, and gases?
This is an educated guess or a testable prediction written as an "If... then..." statement.
What is a hypothesis?
You all know your Science teacher as "Mrs. F or Ms. F". But, can you say her FULL last name and pronounce it correctly?
Fuqua
Pronounced: Few-Kway
It takes Earth 365 days to complete one of these around the Sun, giving us our year.
What is a revolution?
Often called the "brain" or powerhouse of control, this organelle houses the cell's DNA.
What is the nucleus?
This type of energy is stored energy, like a rock sitting at the top of a hill.
What is potential energy?
This is the variable in an experiment that the scientist deliberately changes or manipulates.
What is the independent variable?
Mrs. F is no spring chicken. How old is Mrs. F?
*Hint: Birthday is July 20th so she hasn't got a year older since she started in January!
35 years old
The tilt of Earth’s axis as it revolves around the Sun is the direct cause of this seasonal phenomenon.
What are the seasons?
Unlike animal cells, plant cells contain these two specific structures to provide support and make food.
What are the cell wall and chloroplasts?
Ice melting into water is an example of this type of change, where no new substance is created.
What is a physical change?
This process breaks down rocks into smaller pieces through wind, water, or ice.
What is weathering?
Mrs. F is an animal lover! Do you remember how many animals TOTAL she has?
*HINT: She didn't have kittens at the beginning of the school year and she STILL has them at this time.
8 total
3 dogs: Kelah, Millie, Arya
5 cats: 1 cat, 4 kittens
This predictable rise and fall of the ocean's water level is caused by the gravitational pull of the Moon and the Sun.
What are tides?
In an ecosystem, an organism that makes its own food using sunlight is called a producer. This is the term for an organism that must eat other living things for energy.
What is a consumer?
This is the measurement of the amount of matter in an object, usually measured in grams or kilograms.
What is mass?
This type of rock is formed from the cooling and solidification of molten magma or lava.
What is igneous rock?
Mrs. F has been in the game for a minute. How many years has Mrs. F been a teacher? (This year is not included because it is not over yet!)
6 years!
This will be Mrs. F 7th year teaching.
This is the correct order of the planets starting closest to the Sun.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
This level of organization comes right between "tissues" and "organ systems."
What are organs?
When you cook on a stove, heat transfers from the hot burner directly to the metal pan through this method of heat transfer.
What is conduction?
This part of the water cycle occurs when water vapor cools down and turns back into liquid water droplets, forming clouds.
What is condensation?
Ready for a DOOZY? Mrs. F told you 3 lies and 1 truth back in January on her intro slideshow. Do you remember what the truth was?
Acceptable responses:
I have had 28 staples in my head/fire extinguisher to the head/minor concussion