It's information you get from your senses: sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing, and so on.
What is an observation?
100
This force pulls you back toward the center of the Earth, which we often call "down".
It also pulls EVERYTHING with mass toward everything ELSE with mass!
What is gravity?
100
These are the phases of the moon.
What is new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, third quarter, waning crescent?
100
It's the process an organism goes through as it is born, grows, reproduces, and dies.
What is a life cycle?
100
It's a word made of three letters that means "life" in science.
What is "bio"?
200
It's an educated guess based on observations.
What is an inference?
200
It's the ability to do work.
What is energy?
200
This is the kind of eclipse where the moon blocks light from the sun.
What is a solar eclipse?
200
The leaves of a plant perform this thing, that starts with a "P", and means "putting together (food) from light"
What is photosynthesis?
200
It's one letter that can go on the front of things (called a prefix), and it means "not", as in "not alive".
What is "A"?
300
It's something in an experiment that can change.
What is a variable?
300
A circuit that has electricity is a complete loop. We call a circuit that makes a complete loop this.
What is a closed circuit?
300
The Earth does this, and it gives us day and night.
What is rotate?
300
These large blood vessels COME FROM THE HEART.
What are arteries?
300
This type of diagram shows how energy moves from the sun, to plants, and to animals, using arrows to show the direction the energy flows.
What is a food chain (or food web)?
400
It's the one you change.
What is a manipulated variable, or independent variable?
400
When a substance is heated, its particles start to do this more quickly.
What is move?
400
The earth does this on its axis, and it gives us seasons.
What is tilt?
400
This source of calories is listed on the nutrition facts on food you buy from the store. This one gives our bodies building blocks for making new muscle cells and for repairing old cells.
What is protein?
400
When an organism dies, this type of organism will break it back down into nutrients that plants can use to make food (and store chemical energy).
What is a decomposer?
500
It's the one you measure.
What is a responding variable, or dependent variable?
500
This is when one type of energy becomes another type of energy.
For instance, when Mr. Lawler was outside yesterday he was stomping his feet because he knew the mechanical energy in his moving leg muscles would turn into heat energy.
What is energy transfer (or energy transformation)?
500
This thing about water makes wind go from the sea to the land in the day, and the land to the sea at night.
What is heat capacity?
500
This part of a flower protects the reproductive organs and helps pollinators to find the nectar on the pistil.
What are the petals?
500
When human beings cut down a forest to put up houses, organisms that live in the forest are forced to move somewhere else and do this with the organisms that already live there, or they will die.