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Science Grab Bag
100

This process moves water through evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.


What is the water cycle?

100

This process helps plants make their own food using sunlight.

→ What is photosynthesis?

100

This state of matter has a definite shape and volume.

→ What is a solid?

100

This is the first step in the engineering design process.

→ What is defining a problem?

100

This tool is used to look at very small objects.

→ What is a microscope?

200

This causes day and night on Earth.

→ What is Earth's rotation?

200

These are characteristics passed from parents to offspring.

→ What are inherited traits?

200

This type of energy can travel through space and helps us see.

→ What is light energy?

200

These are limits engineers must follow, like time or materials.

→ What are constraints?

200

This unit measures temperature.

→ What are degrees Celsius (or Fahrenheit)?

300

This natural event involves the shaking of the ground.

→ What is an earthquake?

300

This type of organism breaks down dead material in an ecosystem.

→ What is a decomposer?

300

his type of change forms a new substance.

→ What is a chemical change?

300

A working model used to test an idea is called this.

→ What is a prototype?

300

This is information you gather with your senses.

→ What is an observation?

400

These rocks form from cooled lava or magma.

→ What are igneous rocks?

400

This is a diagram that shows energy flow through a community.

→ What is a food web?

400

This force pulls objects toward Earth.

→ What is gravity?

400

This is the term for what a design must do.

→ What are criteria?

400

These help scientists record and interpret data.

→ What are data tables and graphs?

500

This causes the phases of the Moon.

→ What is the Moon's position relative to Earth and the Sun?

500

This refers to the changes that organisms make to survive in their environment.

→ What are adaptations?

500

This is the ability to do work or cause change.

→ What is energy?

500

After building a prototype, engineers do this to find problems and improve their designs.

→ What is testing and redesigning?

500

This is the part of an experiment that is changed on purpose.

→ What is the independent variable?