Life Science
What is the basic unit of life?
What is a cell?
What is the SI unit for measuring mass?
What is the kilogram (kg)?
What are the three main layers of the Earth?
What are the crust, mantle, and core?
The first step of the scientific method involves making an observation and asking a...
What is a question?
The ability to do work or cause change is called...
What is energy?
This process allows plants to convert sunlight into chemical energy.
What is photosynthesis?
The amount of matter in an object is called its...
What is mass?
The supercontinent that existed millions of years ago is called...
What is Pangaea?
A testable prediction about the outcome of an experiment is called a...
What is a hypothesis?
Energy that an object has because of its motion is called...
What is kinetic energy?
The structure in a cell that controls all cellular activities is called the.
What is the nucleus?
This law states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton's Third Law of Motion?
This scale measures the hardness of minerals on a scale of 1 to 10.
What is the Mohs Hardness Scale?
The variable that you intentionally change in an experiment is called the...
What is the independent variable?
This type of energy is stored in an object due to its position or condition.
What is potential energy?
Organisms that produce their own food are called...
What are producers (or autotrophs)?
The speed of an object in a specific direction is called...
What is velocity?
The process by which water changes from a liquid to a gas is called...
What is evaporation?
This variable is measured or observed to see if it changes as a result of the independent variable.
What is the dependent variable?
The rate at which an object changes position is called...
What is speed?
This type of reproduction involves two parents and creates genetic variation in offspring.
What is sexual reproduction?
When two substances combine to form a new substance with different properties, this type of change has occurred.
What is a chemical change?
This type of plate boundary occurs when two tectonic plates slide past each other horizontally.
What is a transform boundary?
The part of an experiment that is kept the same to allow for fair comparison is called the.
What is the control group?
This principle states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed from one form to another.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?