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Grab Bag
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.
What is air and water?
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

Something that we can observe about an item to help identify it (color, texture, smell...)  is called this.

What is a physical property

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

Oceans, lakes, rivers, glaciers, ground water, and polar ice caps are all examples of this.

What is where Earth's water is located? The Hydrospere!

200

Some cities build a wall as a barrier between a river and the city. What specific problem does this design solution aim to solve?

What is keeping water from flowing into the city during heavy rains and floods?

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
Adding air to expand a basketball and dissolving sugar in water are both examples that prove matter is made of particles that are too ______ to be seen.
What is small?
300

An animal that eats both plants and animals is called this

What is an omnivore?

300

97% of the earthś water is found here.

What is the oceans/salt water?

300

What is energy of motion called?

What is KInetic Energy

300

An organism that consumes only plants is this.

What is an herbivore?

400

Anything that takes up space and has mass.

What is matter

400
This process eventually restores (recycles) some materials back to the soil after a plant or animal's death.
What is decomposition?
400

The orbits of Earth around the Sun is called this.

revolution.

400

What does CER stand for

Claim, Evidence and Reasoning

400

If you compared the weight of an inflated baloon and a deflated balloon, which would weigh more?

Inflated balloon.  Air is matter and has weight!

500
Regardless of the type of change that occurs when heating, cooling, or mixing substances, the total weight of matter is _______.
What is conserved? (stays the same)
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

When a solution can no longer hold any more of the solute (goes to the bottom-think salt water).  It is called this.

What is Saturation.