Scientific Method
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What causes day and night?
Earth's Rotation
What are the 3 states of matter?
Solid, Liquid, and Gas
What is a habitat?
A place where an organism lives.
What is gravity?
A force that pulls objects toward Earth.
What is a hypothesis?
An educated guess or answer
What planet is known as the Red Planet?
Mars
What is an example of a physical change?
Melting ice, tearing paper.
What is a food chain?
What do we call a push or pull?
Force.
What is the independent variable in an experiment?
The part you change.
Name all 8 planets in order from the sun.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
What is the difference between a mixture and a solution?
Mixture = easily separated.
Solution = blended like salt water.
What are producers in an ecosystem?
Organisms that make their own food, like plants.
What tool measures force?
What do you call the results you collect during an experiment?
Data
What causes the seasons?
The tilt of Earth's axis.
What is condensation?
What do we call an animal that eats only plants?
Herbivore.
What is friction?
A force that slows things down.
Observation = what you see/hear.
Inference= what you think it means.
What is a galaxy?
A system of stars, planets, and gas bound by gravity.
What is energy that comes from the sun called?
Solar Energy.
What body system controls breathing?
What is inertia?
The tendency of objects to stay at rest or in.