Not Musical Instruments
This is a natural or artificial body orbiting a planet or star.
What is a satellite?
This is the term used to categorize Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus.
What are Jovian planets?
This is a branch of science that deals with the physical universe beyond Earth's atmosphere.
What is astronomy?
This is a force of attraction existing between any two masses.
What is the Law of Gravity?
When we placed different sized glasses over top of a burning candle, the flames burned out due to an absence of this.
What is oxygen?
This type of telescope uses two glass lenses to bend light into an image.
What is a refracting telescope?
This term is used to describe the phase of the moon where the lighted portion increases each day.
What is waxing?
This is the study of Earth's history as revealed in the rocks that make up the Earth.
What is geology?
This theory that life came to be without a Creator, or that life came from non-life, using the same kinds of processes we see occurring today.
What is the Theory of Evolution?
When we rubbed a piece of chalk over a piece of sandpaper, it felt warmer because of this.
Van Leeuwenhoek developed this, used to study a world of previously unseen organisms.
What is a microscope?
This is the name for a small celestial object that not only enters the Earth's atmosphere, but strikes the Earth's surface.
What is a meteorite?
This is the study of life's history as revealed in the preserved remains of once-living organisms.
What is paleontology?
This is an explanation of a natural phenomenon or principle that is supported by a significant amount of evidence and often includes mathematical terms.
What is a Scientific Law?
In the experiment where we swirled a weight and a ping pong ball in a container, this is the term that explains how tightly packed the atoms in a substance are.
What is density?
This uses a radioactive process to determine the age of an item.
What is radiometric dating?
This is the term for the amount of light or radiation reflected by a surface, typically that of a planet or moon.
What is albedo?
This is the study of past human life as revealed by preserved relics.
What is archaeology?
This is a law that states that matter cannot be created or destroyed, it can only change forms.
What is the Law of Mass Conservation?
When we dropped different types of paper and other objects from a great height, we were experimenting with this, which is a force that effects falling objects.
What is air resistance?
This is a device that can determine the wavelengths of light that come from an object.
What is a spectroscope?
This is the inner layer of the sun's atmosphere, consisting of plasma that can reach up to 18,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
What is the chromosphere?
This is a new process or machine that makes life better or makes a job easier.
What is technology?
John Dalton, a devout Quaker, built on the works of Democritus and others and became the father of this theory.
What is Atomic Theory?
What is surface tension?