Insects
What do insects have on their heads that help them sense the environment?
What are antennae?
Which force pulls objects toward the Earth?
What is gravity?
How many states of matter are there?
What are three? (solid, liquid, gas)
Which force helps insects stick to walls?
What is friction?
Why do you slide faster down a smooth slide than a rough one?
What is because there is less friction?
True or False: All insects have six legs.
What is True?
What type of force slows down a rolling ball on grass?
What is friction?
Which state of matter has a fixed shape and volume?
What is solid?
What state of matter is air in?
What is gas?
Why do ice cubes disappear when left outside?
What is they melt and then evaporate.
Name one insect that goes through complete metamorphosis.
What is a butterfly / beetle / mosquito / ant?
What happens to an object when balanced forces act on it?
What is it stays still or moves at the same speed?
What happens to water when it is cooled below 0°C?
What is it freezes into ice?
Name one insect that lives in a colony.
What is an ant / bee / termite?
Why does a bottle filled with 1/3 baking soda and 1/3 vinegar spin around and fly off from its original position?
What is the gas (carbon dioxide) produced from the chemical reaction pushes against the bottle and the only exit - bottle mouth which propels it off the ground.
Which part of an insect's body are its wings attached to?
What is the thorax?
What kind of force is used when you push or pull something?
What is contact force?
What is it called when a liquid becomes a gas?
What is evaporation / boiling?
What change happens to a solid when heat is added?
What is it melts into a liquid
What is a common way animals protect themselves from predators?
What is camouflage.
Name the four stages of a butterfly’s life cycle.
What are egg, larva, pupa, adult?
Give one example of a non-contact force.
What is magnetism / gravity / static electricity?
True or False: Gases have no fixed shape but a fixed volume.
What is False? (Gases have neither fixed shape nor volume)
Which part of a flying insect moves the most to keep it in the air?
What are the wings?
What is the reason that a cockroach trapped in a small box with a burning candle died after a while?
What is the cockroach died from suffocation.