8 of these happen each month, for 12 months of the year.
What are MOON PHASES?
100
The is how we classify stars.
What is the H-R Diagram?
100
This is what the law of Conservation of Mass states.
What is matter cannot be created nor destroyed?
(the following may be accepted: "matter cannot be created nor destroyed in a chemical reaction." OR "The mass of all reactants must equal the mass of all products)
100
I am the smallest particle of matter, and these are my parts.
What is an atom that has a nucleus with protons and neutrons and an electron cloud that contains electrons?
100
The arrows in food chains/webs show the transfer of this.
What is energy?
200
This is the term used when the moon appears to be getting bigger as it moves away from the SUN.
What is WAXING?
200
This is the term for the shape of the Galaxy in which we live.
What is the Milky Way (a Spiral Galaxy)?
200
In chemical reactions atoms are _________________.
What is rearranged?
200
Atoms are individual elements represented on the _____________________.
What is the Periodic Table of Elements?
200
I am evidence that all the on Earth was once connected, or closer together than it is now.
What is fossil evidence, sea-floor spreading, or the pieces (continents) seem to filt like a puzzle?
300
This appears before the LAST QUARTER, and AFTER the NEW MOON.
What is WANING GIBBOUS?
300
This is a grouping of all possible energy levels of electromagnetic radiation.
What is the spectrum or electromagnetic spectrum?
300
This is the statement for what Chemical Formulas show.
What is the number of atoms within a substance?
300
These are the vertical and horizontal rows on the Periodic Table.
What are groups and periods?
300
You can use this map to help plan your next camping or hiking trip.
What is a topographical map or topography map?
400
This much of the moon is always reflecting light from the SUN.
What is 50%?
400
This is the term for the change in wavelength that allows us to determine if an object is moving toward, or away from us.
What is redshift?
400
This is the difference between subscripts and coefficients.
What is subscripts tell how many atoms there are in a chemical formula and coefficients tell how many molecules there are in a chemical formula?
Also accepted: “Subscripts are to the right of the atoms, Coefficients are the big number in front.”
400
The outermost shell of an atom contains these, which determine reactivity.
What are valence electrons?
400
The term for the transfer of warm air to cool air which is driven by the Sun.
What is convection?
500
This is the amount of the lit portion we ACTUALLY see during the first and last quarter phases.
What is 25%?
500
This is what a nebula is composed of.
What is dust and gas?
500
I am two or more atoms joined together. I can be made of the same type of elements or different elements.
What is a mixture?
500
These are the properties (characteristics) of metals.
What are luster (shiny), conductivity (allow electricity to pass through) and malleability (bendable).