Matter is anything that takes up space? True or False
True
100
What is mechanical energy?
Is a moving car an example of mechanical energy?
Energy of moving things
Yes, a moving car is an example. Can you list more example?
100
A force can be a push, pull, gravity or magnetism?
Bonus: How do simple machines help us?
What is True
Bonus: They make work easier.
100
The Sun is a solid made of rock. True or False.
False. It is a ball of gas.
100
What is a mixture?
What is when a combination of two or more difference substances that keep their identities.
200
If I have a golf ball and an piece of straw. Which one will sink or float?
Bonus: Which one has more mass?
golf ball will sink
piece of straw will float
Bonus: golf ball
200
Give one example that fits both into Light and Heat energy?
answers will vary- Sun, light bulb. Teacher will check.
200
List as many simple machines as you can. The team with the most simple machines will win the points.
(gallery walk around the school might help you remember)
swings
balls
pulleys
wagons
lever
incline plane
200
The Sun is our biggest form of light and heat energy?
What is true.
200
What is gravity?
Bonus: Is there more gravity here or on the moon?
What is force that pulls two objects towards each other.
Bonus: here on Earth.
300
I use this to measure the temperature of the water?
Bonus: What state of matter has a definite shape?
What is a thermometer?
Bonus: Solid
300
True or false?
Sound energy moves in waves.
Bonus: Give an example of something that has light, heat and sound energy?
True
Cell phone, TV, Computer
300
Is pudding more of a solid or a liquid. Explain.
teacher will check
300
What is the acronym to remember the order of the planets?
My very educated mother just served us nachos.
300
True or False
The Sun provides light and heat energy for the water cycle.
True
400
List 3 examples of a solid, liquid and gas.
Answers will vary, teacher will decide.
400
Matter can be changed by heating or cooling? True or False.
Give an example.
True, example- add heat to ice and it will turn into liquid.
400
When I am looking at something unknown what are the ways that I can investigate its physical properties?
The team with the most correct answers will earn the points.
You can look at it with a microscope or a magnifying glass
I can touch it to see how it feels. I can take its temperature. I can weigh it or put it in water to see if it sinks or floats.
400
Draw on your white board the Sun, Moon and Earth. Draw arrows that show the rotations of each.
Teacher will check.
400
How can you separate a mixture of paperclips and rocks?
Use a magnet to get all the paperclips out and only the rocks will be left.
500
White board needed: draw the molecules of a solid liquid and gas.
solid- close together
liquid- further apart
gas- very far apart
500
Can you name an example in the classroom right now of
1 mechanical energy
2 sound
3 light
4 heat/thermal
answers will vary, teacher will check
500
How do you tell the difference between a liquid and a gas?
Neither have a definite shape. A gas doesn't have volume but liquid does.
500
What is friction? Does it produce heat?
Friction is when two things rub together and yes it produces heat.
500
What are the 4 types of energy we learned about in class?