A substance made from one or more elements in a fixed ratio.
What is a chemical compound?
100
Speed and/or direction of an object does not change.
What is constant velocity?
100
This is a meaurement used to tell how my space a certain substance occupies.
What is volume?
100
These chunks of ice, dust and rock are seen in the night sky as a bright light with a "tail."
What is a comet?
200
This the genetic code found in all organisms.
What is DNA?
200
A substance that cannot be broken down into simpler substances. Everything in the universe is made from one or more of these.
What is an element?
200
Any push or pull on an object.
What is a force?
200
This part of the experiment allows the experimenter to see a result. It is dependent upon the variable being tested.
What is dependent variable?
200
This is the idea that the broken pieces of Earth's crust have moved from their orignal position to where they are now. In other words, they have drifted over a long period of time.
What is continental drift?
300
This tool is used to see what types of offspring could be produced from certain parents.
What is a Punnett square?
300
This is stored in the bonds between atoms and molecules. It is released when the bonds are broken.
What is chemical energy?
300
The tendency for an object to resist a change in motion.
What is ineria?
300
The answer or "educated guess" to an experimental question.
What is hypothesis?
300
This is the idea that a massive glacier once covered a majority of North America.
What is continental glaciation?
400
This involves the study of one trait.
What is a monohybrid cross?
400
The process in which one or more reactants are turned into one or more new products.
What is a chemical reaction?
400
All the forces acting on an object.
What is net force?
400
The variety of ways seeds must be transported from the parent plant to a different place in order to grow into a new plant. In order to do this, many plants depend on animals and wind to carry their seeds.
What are dispersal methods?
400
Changes in the Earth’s crust due to tectonic forces. Results vary from mountain ranges to valleys.
What is crustal deformation?
500
These are the living parts of the environment.
What are biotic factors?
500
This states that matter is neither created nor destroyed during a chemical reaction.
What is the law of conservation of matter?
500
There are 3 of these, which are named after Sir Isaac himself. They apply at all moving objects in the universe.
What are Newton's laws of motion?
500
Part of the experiment not exposed to the independent variable. Used as a method of comparison.
What is control.
500
This theory is based on the fact that convection currents from deep within the Earth's mantle allow for pieces of the Earth's crust to move.