Electricity
What type of circuit allows electricity to flow within the circuit?
Closed Circuit
What type of wave does light travel in?
What is a place where the Earth’s tectonic plates push against each other, or come together?
Convergent Boundary
What are things kept the same in an experiment?
Constants
What is the measure of energy transfer that occurs when an object is moved over a distance by an external force?
Work
What is the transfer of negatively charged particles between materials?
Static Electricity
What allows some light to pass through? Give an example as well.
Translucent
What is a place where the Earth’s tectonic plates are moving away from each other?
What is something that gives data and results in an experiment?
Dependent Variable
What is the measure of how fast and how far an object moves in a certain amount of time?
Speed
What allows light to pass through easily? Give an example as well.
Transparent
What is a place where Earth’s plates slide alongside or past each other?
Transform Boundary
What is a prediction based on scientific reasoning that can be tested to see if it is correct? It often has the words if and then.
Hypothesis
What are resources that are replaced naturally and can be used again and again? Give examples.
Renewable Energy
Wind energy, Water energy (dams), Solar energy
Cotton, wood, rubber, and plastic are all examples of
Insulators
What does not allow light to pass through at all? Give an example as well.
Opaque
What is the wearing down and breaking up of hard rock by natural forces such as wind, ice, plants, and burrowing animals?
Weathering
What is something changed in an experiment on purpose to see how it affects the outcome.
Independent Variable
What is a group of organisms of the same kind living in the same place?
Population
How can you make an electromagnet stronger?
Describe refraction vs reflection.
What rock type is formed by layers of rock that have been eroded and then pressed (compressed) together and hardened?
Sedimentary Rock
What is the amount of space a solid, liquid, or gas occupies?
Volume
What is a push or pull that causes an object to move, stop, or change speed and/or direction?
Force