Life Science
Forces and Motion
Electricity and Magnetism
Plate Tectonics and Natural Hazards
Wild Card
100

The structure on a plant helps it gather light from the sun for photosynthesis.

What are leaves?

100

This causes a change in motion.

What is an unbalanced force?

100

This is what happens when a north side of a magnet and a south side of a magnet are near each other.

What is attract?

100

These are the 3 layers of the earth.

What are the crust, mantle, and core?
100

When responding to a question in science, this is how we answer.

What is claim, evidence, and reasoning?

200

This is an animal that eats only plants.

What is an herbivore?

200

This is an object's resistance to a change in motion.

What is inertia?

200

Electricity is the flow of this.

What is electrons?

200

This type of plate boundary is most likely to produce a tsunami

What is convergent?

200

This is the list of things that a solution MUST do in order to be successful.

What is criteria?

300

This is a way to describe the animal at the top of a food web.

What is an apex predator?

300

An object at rest will remain at rest, and an object in motion will stay in motion, unless there is an unbalanced force.

What is Newton's 1st Law of Motion?

300

The 3 magnetic metals.

What are nickel, iron, and cobalt?

300

These are the 3 types of tectonic plate boundaries.

What are convergent, divergent, and transform?

300

Biodiversity is the amount of different species in an area.  This is the type of climate that would have the most biodiversity.

What is warm?

400

These are two examples of an abiotic factor in an ecosystem.

What are water, sunlight, nutrients, space, and weather conditions?

400

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction

What is Newton's 3rd Law of Motion?

400

To make a light bulb brighter, you should do this

What is get a bigger battery?

400

As tsunami waves travel closer to the shore, the waves do this.

What is get taller/higher?

400

Identify a Problem, Generate Ideas, Plan and Select a Solution, Build a Solution, Test and Evaluate your Solution are all steps in this process.

What is engineering design?

500
The arrows in a food chain or food web represent this.

What is the flow of energy?

500

This is the force that slows down a moving object.

What is friction?

500
When you increase the coils in an electromagnet, this is what happens.

What is it gets stronger?

500

Besides tsunamis, these are 2 other types of natural hazards.

What are wildfires, thunderstorms, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, droughts, and extreme heat?

500

This is the type of turtle that lived in our classroom this year.

What is diamondback terrapin?