🧬 Life & Genetics
The part of a plant cell that uses sunlight to make food.
What is the chloroplast?
The reason Earth experiences different seasons throughout the year.
What is the tilt of Earth's rotational axis?
The axis is tilted at about 23.5 degrees, and this tilt remains fixed in space as Earth orbits the Sun.
The state of matter that takes the shape of its container but keeps a constant volume.
What is a liquid?
A push or a pull on an object.
What is a force?
The standard scientific tool used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
A characteristic that is passed from parent to offspring, like eye color.
What is a trait?
The process in the water cycle where a gas cools down and turns back into a liquid, forming clouds.
Melting an ice cube is an example of this type of change, because it is still water.
The force that resists motion when two surfaces rub together, like sliding a box across a carpet.
The information and measurements collected during an experiment.
What is data?
A grid tool used by scientists to predict the probability of traits in offspring.
What is a Punnett square?
A natural disaster caused by the sudden shifting of tectonic plates along a fault line.
Baking a cake or a nail rusting are examples of this type of change, because a new substance is formed.
What is a chemical change?
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The stored energy an object has because of its position, like a roller coaster waiting at the top of a hill.
The final step of the scientific method where you state whether your hypothesis was correct.
What is the conclusion?
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The system in the human body responsible for breaking down food so cells can use it for energy.
What is the digestive system?
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The rock cycle classifies all rocks into these three main types.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
The measure of how tightly packed the matter in an object is, calculated by dividing mass by volume.
The energy that travels through the air and allows you to hear music.
In an experiment measuring how sunlight affects plant growth, the amount of plant growth is this type of variable.
What is the dependent variable?
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The process where a cell divides to create two identical new cells.
The term for the daily rising and falling of ocean levels caused by the gravitational pull of the moon.
The basic building block of all matter.
What is an atom?
The tendency of an object to resist a change in its motion, as described by Newton's First Law.
The standard metric unit used by scientists to measure mass.
What is a gram (or kilogram)?
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