Forces & Motion
Living Things
Weather
Heat and Matter
Potpourri
100
Distance divided by time.
What is speed?
100
Amoeba, paramecium, and bacteria.
What are single celled organisms?
100
The Pacific Ocean weather system that brings changes to weather across the US.
What is El Nino?
100
The release of moisture in the air from plants.
What is transpiration?
100
Traits you receive from your parents.
What are inherited traits?
200
The horizontal axis where time is shown and the vertical axis where distance is shown.
What is the x and y axis?
200
The body system responsible for protection of organs.
What is skeletal system?
200
The air current which brings colder temperatures to places in the south.
What is the jet stream?
200
Heating an object by the source of heat touching the object.
What is conduction?
200
Clouds made up of ice crystals that are high in the sky.
What are cirrus clouds?
300
The force which slows down motion.
What is friction?
300
The transfer of energy from one living thing to another living thing.
What is the food chain or web?
300
An instrument used to measure the wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
300
Heating through the circulation of air or water.
What is convection?
300
Plants or animals that make new soil.
What are decomposers?
400
The slowing down of an object in motion.
What is deceleration?
400
A water based ecosystem.
What is an aquatic ecosystem?
400
A warm water current which affects weather in our area during the winter months.
What is the Gulf Stream?
400
The cycle on Earth fueled by the sun's energy.
What is the water cycle?
400
A land based ecosystem.
What is a terrestrial ecosystem?
500
The scientist who gave us laws about motion - be sure to include his title, first and last name.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
500
These are traits we are born knowing how to do - example blinking your eyes.
What are innate traits?
500
The constant winds high above the Earth's surface specific to our area.
What are prevailing westerlies?
500
Materials that keep heat rather than lose it.
What insulators?
500
The body system responsible for your five senses.
What is the nervous system?