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100

A pure substance that cannot be broken down into simpler substances.

What is element?
100

Waves carry this from one place to another

What is energy?

100

Anything that has mass and takes up space is 

What is matter?

100

The full range of all EM waves are shown on this.

What is the EM spectrum?

100

Copper wires are great for carrying electricity, but they are wrapped in rubber so you don't get shocked when you touch them. In this setup, the rubber serves as what?

What is an insulator?

200

A brick has a definite shape, juice takes the shape of its container, and helium expands to fill the whole balloon.

What are solids, liquids and gases?

200

Camila sees lightening and then hears the thunder during a storm because this wave is faster.

What is light? 

200

I am from Earth and weigh 115lbs. When I go to the moon, my weight changes but this does not.

What is mass?

200

If white light passes through a prism, it splits into the visible spectrum.

What is a rainbow?

200

Shredding paper and ice melting are examples of this.

What is a physical change?

300

As the temperature of molecules increase, their movement ___.

What is increase?

300

As the frequency decreases, wavelength _.

What is increase?

300

Maria wants to find the volume of her pet rock. She fills a graduated cylinder up to 20mL and puts the rock inside. The water rises to 35mL. What is the volume of her pet?

What is 15mL?

300

If shouting inside a deep canyon creates an echo, then shining a flashlight at a mirror creates a what?

What is reflection? 

300

Heat flows between two objects that are close to each other if the objects have different...

What is temperatures?

400

This organizes all the elements. 

What is the periodic table of elements? 

400

Sound cannot travel through empty space because this is required. 

What is a medium?

400

Ray has a gallon of water. He pour a small cup for his son. Both the water in the gallon and in the cup have the same this.

What is density?

400

In this classroom, the bottom part of the windows are transparent, while the top is translucent. In both parts light is __.

What is transmitted?

400

This method of heat transfer is like a line of dominoes: fast-moving, hot particles bump into slower, cooler particles, passing the thermal energy along through direct touch.

What is conduction?

500

Lilah drops a solid white tablet into a glass of water. He records the following observation in her notebook: "The tablet dissolved and intense bubbling occurred, creating a new gas." What kind of change did she observe?

What is a chemical change?

500

Sound waves are __ waves, as ocean surface waves are transverse. 

What is longitudinal? 
500

If you have a mixture of sandy ocean water and you pass it through a paper filter, the tiny water molecules slide right through, but the larger sand grains get left behind.  

What is filtration?

500

If you place a straight pencil into a glass of water, the pencil suddenly looks bent or broken at the water's surface.

What is refraction?

500

Computers, smartphones, and streaming services like Netflix don't use smooth, continuous analog waves to send data. Instead, they rely on this cleaner, more precise type of signal that doesn't get distorted by static.

What is digital signal?