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100
This is the force that is exerted on objects by Earth that directs/pulls them down.
What is gravity?
100

Plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from these two things.

Air, water, and the sun.

100
Your shadow is the shortest/smallest during this time of day.
What is noon?
100
Sandy is building a small toy car. He wants to use a balloon to power the toy car. He fills a balloon with air and then attaches a straw to the balloon. He tapes the balloon-straw combination to the car and then releases the end of the balloon. The toy moves forward as the air from the balloon comes out the back of the straw. What can Sandy do to make the toy car move faster?
What is blow up the balloon more?
100
Casey is given a sample mixture containing calcium carbonate, glucose, iron filings, and silica sand. Which of the materials could be separated out with a magnet?
What are iron filings?
200
Animals get their energy from this.
What is food?
200
This scientific process is how plants take matter that is not food (light, air, water, and soil) and turn it in to matter that is food.
What is photosynthesis?
200

Name the terrestrial planets.

Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.

200

What variable must we change in an experiment?

Independent 

200
Of the following substances in each mixture, what is the only one that is soluble in its mixture? Sugar in water, sand in water, oil in water, or pebbles in water?
What is sugar in water?
300

What is the one-word definition of Newton's first law?

Inertia

300
If you go far enough down the food chain, food of almost any kind of animal can be traced back to _____.
What is plants?
300

What separates the terrestrial planets from the gas giants?

Asteriods

300

When HVAC technicians want to heat or cool a house they must know which of the properties of heat transfer?

Convection

300
An organism that consumes only plants is this.
What is an herbivore?
400
Energy in animals' food that is used for body repair, growth, motion, and to maintain body warmth was once energy from this.
What is the Sun?
400
This process eventually restores (recycles) some materials back to the soil after a plant or animal's death.
What is decomposition?
400

How long is one revolution of Earth?

365.25 days

400

If putting blinds in a house and you want your room to be able to be completely dark what level of light absorption blinds must you get? (Vocab word)

Opaque 

400

A prism breaks a light beam into a rainbow what is this phenomenon called? 

Refraction 

500

Energy cannot be created or destroyed. What is this law called?

Law of the conservation of energy 

500

Newly introduced species can do this to the balance of an ecosystem.

What is damage it or throw it off?

500
The sun is a star that appears larger and brighter than other stars because it is _____.
What is closer to Earth than other stars?
500
Ms. Jovin's class is investigating simple machines. They built a ramp to roll tennis balls down, and measured how far they rolled. The tennis balls released at the top of the ramp all traveled about the same distance. If they wanted the balls to roll even further, they could do this.
What is build a ramp that is taller?
500

Name all three of Newton's Laws.

1. Inertia

2. F=Ma

3. Every action has and equal yet opposite reaction.