Inquiry
Mixtures & Solutions
Land & Water
Cells and Ecosystems
Forces and Motion
100
This type of observation requires numbers
What is a quantitative observation?
100
This is a combination of two or more substances.
What is a mixture?
100
This type of process builds or creates landforms, such as deposition, landslides, volcanic eruptions, and floods.
What is a constructive force?
100
These are animals that are hunted and killed as food for other animals.
What is prey?
100
The force that opposes motion between two surfaces that are touching
What is friction?
200
This acronym reminds you how to graph variables
What is DRY MIX?
200
This type of change occurs when a substance changes into a new substance.
What is a chemical change?
200
The movement of sediments and soil by wind, water, ice, and gravity.
What is erosion?
200
These are consumers that eat both plants and animals
What are omnivores?
200
Forces that cause changes in motion
What are unbalanced forces?
300
These variables do not change in an experiment
What is a controlled variable? (or constant)
300
This separation technique separates solids from liquids by size.
What is filtration?
300
An island with sandy beaches that functions to protect the mainland from the effects of waves on its shore.
What is a barrier island?
300
These include all the living parts of an ecosystem.
What are biotic factors?
300
The location of an object relative to another object described in terms such as "above," "below," "beside," "behind," and "ahead of," plus the distance from the other object
What is position?
400
This type of experiment has only one independent or manipulated variable
What is a fair test?
400
The amount of material dissolved in a measure of liquid
What is concentation?
400
These are flowing streams of water that move continually through the ocean in specific direction.
What is a current?
400
A small structure inside a cell that controls everything the cell does
What is a nucleus?
400
A substance that reduces friction by making surfaces smoother
What is a lubricant?
500
This tool is used to measure the volume of a liquid.
What is a graduated cylinder?
500
This separation technique is used to separate and analyze the solutes in a solution.
What is chromatography?
500
Underwater volcanic mountains found along the bottom of the ocean floor that divides it into two parts.
What is the mid-ocean ridge?
500
These are storage spaces in a cell that hold water and other nutrients the cell needs as well as wastes
What are vacuoles?
500
The amount of matter in an object (the greater the amount of matter in an object, the greater the force needed to move the object)
What is mass?