The Scientific Method
Earth Science
Space Science
Physical Science
Toy Hall of Fame
100
This is the one variable that you change in an experiment.
What is an independent variable?
100
This can occur with the movement of tectonic plates along fault lines.
What is an earthquake?
100

It's the galaxy that includes our solar system.

What is the Milky Way?

100

A solution is acidic when it has a pH less than this.

What is 7?

100

Splish splash, you can take a bath with this playful yellow inductee that floats.

What is a rubber ducky?

200

The variable you watch and measure throughout an experiment.

What is the dependent variable?

200

These are caused by the moon's gravitational pull on our oceans.

What are tides?

200

This phenomenon occurs when the moon casts a shadow on part of the earth.

What is a solar eclipse?

200

Water boiling is an example of this kind of change.

What is a phase or physical change?

200

The National Toy Hall of Fame honored a box made of this; inside a big one, "a child is transported to a world of (their) own".

What is cardboard?

300

A proposed explanation for an observation or phenomenon. 

What is a hypothesis?

300

Deforestation can cause this effect on the Earth's surface.

What is erosion or global warming?

300

This fundamental force guides the movements of all objects in space.

What is gravity?

300
When a roller coaster reaches the top of a hill, it has its maximum of this type of energy.
What is potential?
300

The National Toy Hall of fame calls this, created in 1974, the "most popular puzzle in history".

What is a Rubik's cube?

400
This is when one scientist performs the experiment of another scientist.
What is replication?
400

These rocks often start as sediments carried in rivers and deposited in lakes and oceans that eventually become cemented.

What is sedimentary?

400

A natural particle from space that survives impact with the Earth's surface.

What is a meteorite?

400

When using the periodic table, it's the number that indicates the number of protons in the nucleus of in an element.

What is the atomic number?

400

Hasbro said this action figure that debuted in 1964 was "America's movable fighting man".

What is G.I. Joe?

500

This process involves evaluation of experiments by experts before publication in a scientific journal.

What is peer review?

500

Unlike weather, which can change daily, this is the average pattern of atmospheric conditions such as temperature, rainfall, and humidity.

What is climate?

500

These have a gravitational pull so strong that light cannot escape, and are formed when a star collapses.

What is a black hole?

500

(2 answers) One is a measure of the force of gravity, the other is a measure of matter.

What is weight and mass?

500

Joshua Lionel Cowen entered the HoF for his work on these playthings, which he branded with his own middle name.

What are toy trains?