Facts noted using the five senses
What are observations?
A continuous process by which rocks are created, changed from one form to another, destroyed, and then formed again.
What is the Rock Cycle?
energy transfer from an object at a higher temperature to an object at a lower temperature.
What is heat?
The passing of traits from one generation to the next
What is heredity?
The push or pull on an object with mass causes it to change its velocity.
What is force?
An assumption or guess that is made based on observations
What is an inferenece?
Made of liquid iron and nickel and is constantly spinning.
What is the outer core?
The total kinetic energy of all particles in a substance.
What is thermal energy?
Identical types of genes are inherited from each parent.
What are homozygous genes?
When a force acts on an object to move it some distance.
What is work?
They are qualitative meaning using numbers and quantitative which are descriptive
What are the 2 types of observations?
The process by where water, ice, wind, or gravity moves pieces of rock or soil
What is erosion?
Heat moves from one object to another object through direct touch
What is conduction?
The different possibilities for a given trait.
What are alleles?
A device that helps make work easier to perform
What are Simple Machines?
This is a statement that leads to an investigation and must be testable.
What is a hypothesis?
A scientific theory that explains how major landforms are created as a result of Earth's subterranean movements.
What is the Theory of Plate Techtonics?
The change in direction and wavelength when a wave moves from one medium to another.
What is Refraction?
An organisms physical appearance or its visible traits.
What is it's phenotype?
Can be used to change the direction of a force or to gain a mechanical advantage, depending on how it is arranged.
What is a pulley?
A logical and consistent process for stating and solving problems in the natural world.
What is the scientific method?
The process where one plate sinks into the mantle underneath the other plate.
What is subduction?
The transfer of energy is through electromagnetic waves; requires no medium and can be transferred through any state of matter.
What is radiation?
A chart that shows all possible combinations of alleles that can result from a genetic cross.
What is a Punnett square?

This is an image of a simple machine.
What is a screw?