Heat & Temperature
Structures & Forces
Ecosystems & Interactions
Plants for food and fibre
Science Facts
100

An device used for measuring temperature .

What is a thermometer?

100

What is a force

Any push or pull

100

Provide an example of a producer

Any kind of plant

100

What is the part of the plant that anchors it in the soil?

Roots

100

This is the strongest shape

What is a triangle?

200

Canada uses Celsius, the United States uses farenheit- what is a unit of temperature commonly used in science?

What is Kelvin (K) ?

200

An objects job is also described as this

What is function?

200

What is biodiversity?

The variety of all living things and their interactions


200

What is the female part of the plant called and what is it made of?

Pistil, it is made of the stigma, style, and ovary

200

What are the three states of matter?

Solid, liquid, gas

300
The measure of something's ability to do work or cause changes.
What is energy?
300

This kind of bridge has lots of triangles

What is a TRUSS bridge

300

What is an invasive species? (*bonus points for naming one!)

A species not native to a certain area and has negative impacts on its new ecosystem

300

Which part of the plant releases water vapour, and what is that process called?

Stomata and the process is transpiration
300

What is the boiling point of water?

100oC

400

What is radiation and what is one example?

Energy transfer through electromagnetic waves (ex. sun, microwaves, heat from a campfire)

400
The measure of the amount of matter in an object.
What is mass?
400

One way humans negatively impact ecosystems

Answers will vary

400

What can cause salinization of soil?

Having too much water and not enough plants can dissolve salts and bring them to the surface 
400

In what process do plants use Oxygen and sugar to make Carbon Dioxide and Energy

Cellular respiration 

500

Adding more heat causes particles to move ______

Faster/more

500

The five types of INTERNAL forces

What are tension, torsion, bending, shear, compression

500

What is the process producers use to make their own food?

Photosynthesis

500

Describe the process of the stomata opening and closing by talking about the water.

When the guard cells fill with water, it opens. When they release the water through transpiration it closes.

500

What are the three methods of heat transfer?

Conduction, convection, radiation