Electricity & Magnetism
What is the flow of electric charge called?
An electric current.
Question: What force pulls objects toward Earth?
Answer: Gravity.
Question: What causes day and night on Earth?
Answer: Earth’s rotation.
Question: What is an organism that makes its own food called?
Answer: A producer.
Question: What is a substance called before a chemical reaction takes place?
Answer: A reactant.
Question: What material allows electricity to move through it easily?
A conductor.
Question: What is the name of the star at the center of our solar system?
Answer: The Sun.
Question: What phase of the Moon occurs when the Moon appears completely lit?
Answer: A full moon.
Question: What do we call all the living and nonliving things interacting in an area?
Answer: An ecosystem.
Question: Name one sign that a chemical reaction has occurred.
Answer: Possible answers: color change, gas production, temperature change, light produced, or formation of a precipitate.
Question: What happens when the north pole of one magnet is brought near the south pole of another magnet?
Answer: They attract.
Question: What path does a planet follow as it moves around the Sun?
Answer: An orbit.
What is it called when we are seeing more and more of the moon and the right side is lit up?
waxing
The beginning of every food chain.
A producer.
Question: What is formed after a chemical reaction occurs?
Answer: Products.
Question: Name the energy source that powers most electrical circuits.
Answer: A battery.
Question: What is the region between Mars and Jupiter called that contains many space rocks?
Answer: The asteroid belt.
Question: Which day in the Northern Hemisphere are daylight hours usually the longest?
Answer: Summer Solstice
The end of every food chain.
A decomposer.
Question: Is rusting a physical change or a chemical change?
Answer: A chemical change.
Question: What is created around a magnet that causes magnetic forces?
Answer: A magnetic field.
elliptical orbit
Question: Why do we always see the same side of the Moon from Earth?
Answer: The Moon rotates at the same rate that it revolves around Earth.
An organism that eats both plants and animals.
Omnivore
Question: What law states that matter cannot be created or destroyed during a chemical reaction?
Answer: The Law of Conservation of Mass.