Energy and Space
Space and Animals
Animals and Land
Mixed 1
Mixed 2
50

means an energy source that has a continuous supply (solar power, wind power) we can make more in a short time

What is Renewable? 

50

 the fifth planet from the sun and the largest in our solar system

What is Jupiter?

50

Give an example of a biotic 

any living organisms (plant, dog, etc.)

50

plants that make their own food

 What are producers?

50

This is needed to form sedimentary rock

What are compaction and cementation?

100

means natural substance that is not replenished (oil, coal) takes millions of years to form 

What is Non renewable?

100

Light rays bouncing off a smooth, shiny surface is called

what is Reflection 

100

Four key natural resources of New York

What are natural gas and water, plants and animals, minerals and forests?

100

What is a primary consumer

an animal that feeds on plants a herbivore 

100

This planet is sometimes called the blue planet because of its atmosphere.

What is Neptune?
150

A material that allows heat or electrical energy to pass through it easily 

What is a Conductor?

150

This is the process called when leaves on trees use sunlight for energy?

What is Photosynthesis?

150

The movement of sediments then settles in one area 

What is Deposition?

150

A shark in a food chain is an example

What are consumers?

150
Last week in Arlington was warmer than usual.  That is an example of _____________

What is weather?

200

natural body that revolves in an orbit around a star

What is a planet?

200

Under heat and pressure, igneous rock may turn into____________________

What is metamorphic rock?

200

when a liquid changes to a gas it is called 

What is Evaporation?

200

What tool would I use to find the mass of an object? 

A balance scale or triple beam balance 

200

The three types of movement of earth's plates

What are converging, diverging and transforming

250

This is an example of a nonrenewable fossil fuel mined in the western part of Virginia

What is coal?

250

365 days 

What is the amount of time it takes for the Earth to revolve in orbit around the sun?

250

the layer of gasses that surround our planet

What is the atmosphere?

250

What causes day and night everyday

Earth rotating on its axis 

250

The item that changes in an experiment

What is the Independent variable? For instance, the amount of water given to a plant when all other variables such as sunlight, dirt amount, etc remain the same.

300

 giant mass of burning hydrogen and helium at middle of solar system

What is the sun/star?

300

28 days 

What is the length of the lunar (moon) cycle?

300

When a gas(water vapor)changes to a liquid it is called

Condensation

300

What causes the four seasons (fall, winter, spring, and summer)

The till of the Earth as it orbits or revolves around the Sun. 

300

The earth ______________ every 24 hours.

What is rotates?

350

The ability to do work. The ability to cause changes in matter. People get it when they eat food. 

What is Energy

350

This is the reaction of when bread gets turned into toast, changing it into something different

What is a Chemical Reaction?

350

made from decomposing plants and animals over millions of years 

What are Fossil fuels?

350

The breaking down of rock into smaller pieces.

What is weathering?

350

This is the thinnest layer of the earth.

What is the crust?

400

long term weather patterns

What is climate? 

400

This is what an animal who breaks down dead things is called

What is a decomposer?

400

This is the first object in a food web.

What is a producer? (phytoplankton in the ocean, for example)

400

An object that does not allow light to pass through it is _______________

What is opaque?

400

These are also called compression waves

What are sound waves?

450

a path that one object takes around another object

What is an orbit?

450

This is the process of when rock or sediment is carried away by water or wind

What is Erosion?


450

A U-shape valley is made by? 

The movement of a glacier over a valley, causing weathering and then erosion.

450

A stain glass window is _______________ (can mostly see through it)

What is translucent?

450

An herbivore eats these 

What are plants?

500

What are the planets in order from the sun? 

M V E M J S U N 

500

An open circuit means the light will be __________

What is off? 

500

All of the organisms of the same species that live in the same place at the same time

What is a population?

500

Is the sun a planet or star?

Star

500

what does an omnivore eat? 

plants and meat