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100

A noticeably different form or state of the same substance? 

What is a phase?

100

This is considered the basic unit of structure and function in living things. 

What is a cell?

100

This is the reason we see different phases of the Moon throughout the month. 

What is the Moon's orbit (around the Earth)? 

100

These are used by scientists and engineers to study, test, and design ideas.

What are models?
100

The proposed answer to a scientific question. It will require evidence to be evaluated. 

What is a claim?
200
The ability to make things move or change.

What is energy?

200

This system circulates oxygen and nutrients through the body. 

What is the circulatory system?

200

Short-term vs. long-term atmospheric conditions. 

What is weather vs. climate? 

200

These two design elements help limit and focus the solution.

What are criteria and constraints?

200

These are changed or measured in an experiment to test a hypothesis. 

What are variables?

300

A push or pull.

What is a force? 

300

This is a trait that increases an organism's change of survival. 

What is an adaptive trait?

300

Movement in the Earth's crust that can cause earthquakes.

What are plates?
300

This is the plan or idea for solving a problem. 

What is a design?

300

These visual tools help identify trends and patterns in data. 

What are graphs?

400

In this state of matter, molecules move the fastest and are spread far apart. 

What is a gas?

400
This group makes their own energy storage molecules. Other organisms can consume them to obtains said molecules. 

What are producers?

400

This type of rock is formed from cooling lava or magma. 

What is an igneous rock?

400

This is what you do after building a prototype to check its performance. 

What is test and evaluate? 

400

This type of information is used to support or refute scientific claims. 

What is evidence?

500

When two objects exert the same force on each other. The effect can be different depending on their mass and initial velocity.

What is a collision?

500

This process breaks down glucose for energy in cells. 

What is cellular respiration?

500

This natural resource is used for energy but releases a lot of carbon into the air when burned and contributes to air pollution and climate change. 

What is fossil fuel?
500

The process in which engineers plan, build, test, analyze, and repeat to create their design. 

What is the design cycle?

500

These are the two types of variables that affect and measure change. One is the factor we are testing and the other is the result.  

What are independent and dependant variables?