Scientific Method
Gravity
Magnetism
Earth Spheres
Water Cycle
Cell Theory and Parts of a Cell
Microscopes and Magnefication
Cells and Systems
100
What is the number one thing you should never do with any lab material unless you've been told otherwise by your teacher?
Eat it
100
Which of these two objects has more gravity:
A city
A planet
A planet
100
An object is considered a magnet if it can do what?
Attract (pull in)
Repel (pull away)
100
What is the sphere of the Earth that includes all living things?
Biosphere
100
What is it called what water heats up and becomes a gas?
Evaporation
100
What is the name semi-permeable outer layer of animal cells?
Cell membrane
100
What are the three magnifications on a regular class microscope?
4x
10x
40x
Extra points for saying:
40x
100x
400x
100
What are the four different things blood is made of?
Platelets
Red blood cells
White blood cells
Plasma
200
What is the name of the step that requires you to come up with a possible answer (claim) to a scientific question?
Hypothesis
200
Which of these two objects has more gravity:
Earth
Sun
Sun
200
An object is considered magnetic if it can do what?
Be attracted by a magnet
200
What is the name of the sphere that contains all rocks and nonliving materials?
Geosphere
200
What is the name of water that falls from the sky?
Precipitation
200
What is the rigid outer layer of plant cells called?
Cell wall
200
What is being shown in this image?
Blood cells
Extra points for naming:
Red blood cells
White blood cells
Platelets
Plasma
200
Why is there blood everywhere in the body?
Bonus points for each correct answer after the first.
Delivers nutrients and oxygen.
Clots blood and closes wounds.
Fights infections and diseases.
300
What is the name of the variable that I change in an experiment?
Independent variable
300
What direction does gravity pull?
(Hint: It's not the direction you are thing!)
Towards the center of the strongest object.
300
How is an electromagnet made?
A copper coil is attached to a battery.
300
What is the name of the sphere that contains all water and ice?
Hydrosphere
300
Fill in the blanks:
Matter cannot be _______________ nor ________________, only _____________ to a different form.
Created
Destroyed
Changed
300
What is the name of a creature whose cells have a nucleus?
Eukaryote
300
What is being show in this image?
Nerve cells
300
What do nerves do?
Bonus points for other correct answers after the first.
Respond or react
Move muscles
Feel pain
Five senses
Automatic processes
400
What is the name of the variable that changes based on what I am doing?
Dependent variable
400
Is the pull of gravity between these two objects strong or weak?
Strong
400
What two things at the base of the speaker interact to allow it to make noise?
Magnet
Electromagnet
400
What is the name of the sphere that contains all of the planet's gasses and protects is from the rays of the sun?
Atmosphere
400
What is the name for evaporation when it happens from plants?
Transpiration
400
What is the name of the organelle that makes protein for the cell to use?
Ribosome
400
What is being shown in this image?
Bone cells
400
What do skin, bone, and muscle do for us?
Bonus points: How do they work together?
Skin: Stretches or protects
Bone: Structure
Muscle: Movement
Muscles pull on bones, making them move, and skin stretches as the muscle and bones move.
500
Identify the independent and dependent variables in this experiment:
How does orange juice impact plant growth?
Independent Variable: Orange juice
Dependent Variable: Plant growth
500
How strong is the gravity between these two objects?
Which object has the stronger gravitational pull?
Pull of gravity is strong
The bigger object has more gravity
500
What can I do to this system to make the lightbulb brighter?
Name any of the following:
Add more batteries
Increase battery strength (voltage)
Decrease lightbulb resistance
Use a stronger conductor (stronger than copper wire)
500
What gas is more present on Earth?
(Hint: it's probably not the first gas that comes to mind!)
Nitrogen
500
What are the steps of the water cycle (in a logical order)?
Precipitation
Collection (runoff/groundwater)
Evaporation/Transpiration
Condensation
500
What are the three parts of cell theory?
1. All living things are made of cells
2. Cells are the smallest living creatures
3. Cells come from other preexisting cells
500
What kind of creature is being shown in this image?
Pine leaf
500
Which of these images show cells?
Bonus points: How can you tell?
Tomato Skin
Rat Stomach
Cow Muscle
Partial bonus points:
I can see the cells in those three but not the others
Full bonus points:
I can see the cells in those three but not the others because I can see the cell membranes around the outside of the cells