The Nature of Science
Earth Science
Space Science
Physical Science
Life Science
100

This is your if/then statement about what you predict will happen in an experiment

What is a Hypothesis

100

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

What is erosion?

100

Which layer of the atmosphere includes rain, clouds, and other types of weather?

What is Troposphere.

100
Mass divided by volume
What is density?
100

Tell me the order of organization from cell to organism.

What is cell to tissue to organ to organ system to organism.

200

This is the equipment you would use in an experiment if you were measuring a liquid's volume.

Graduated Cylinder (for small amounts)

Beaker (for a large amount)

200

This is the water quality that would be impacted THE MOST if there were fewer plants in the water (either from eutrophication or high turbidity)

What is Dissolved Oxygen

200

What planets are small, rocky, and do NOT have many moons?

What are the Inner Planets

200
This is the bending of waves as they pass through a different medium.
What is refraction?
200

Organelles that capture sunlight for plant's to do photosynthesis.

What is chloroplasts.

300

What are the things called that need to stay the same for all samples in an experiment?

Constants
300

These are the 5 layers of the Atmosphere in order.

What is Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere

300
This is the alignment of the Earth, Sun, and moon during a solar eclipse.
What is Earth - moon - Sun?
300
When a roller coaster reaches the top of a hill, it has its maximum of this type of energy.
What is potential?
300
A tick living on a dog.
What is an example of parasitism?
400

This is the one variable that you change on purpose when doing an experiment.

Independent Variable

400
Watershed are important because they help to slow down runoff, and ___________.

What is filter out pollutants

400

This is caused by the moon's gravitational pull.

What are tides?

400
What is the formula for work?

What is force x distance

400

Traits that can be passed on to offspring are called ______ traits.

What is inherited traits.

500
THis is the variable that you MEASURE in an experiment.

What is Dependent Variable

500

What type of severe weather forms above warm ocean waters at the end of the summer?

What is a hurricane.

500

If you weigh 150 pounds on Earth and go to the moon, you feel weightless.  Has the mass of your body changed?

No.  Weight accounts for gravity's pull on you and would change depending on gravity.  The mass however, doesn't change.

500

Water is H2O (made of 2 Hydrogen and 1 Oxygen).  

Is water an element, a compound, or a mixture?

What is a compound

500

Once piece of evidence that supports common ancestry is many different species having similar bones (like those in the arm of humans and cats, those in the flipper of a whale, and those in the wing of a bat).  What are these called?

What is Homologous Structures.