Matter and Its Properties
This term describes the amount of space an object occupies
What is volume?
This force pulls objects toward the center of the Earth.
What is a gravity?
This term describes a characteristic that can be passed from parents to offspring through genes.
What is an inherited trait?
This is the path a planet takes around the sun.
What is an orbit?
This is the force that pulls objects toward the center of the Earth.
What is gravity?
This is the measure of the amount of matter in an object.
What is mass?
Define friction and its effect on the motion of objects.
What is: Friction is a force that opposes the motion of objects, causing them to slow down or stop?
What are genes, and what do they do?
What is tiny pieces of DNA that decide what we look like and how our bodies work?
What’s the name of the galaxy we live in?
What is the Milky Way?
his is a push or a pull that can make an object move, stop, or change direction.
What is a force?
Identify the state of matter characterized by a definite volume but no definite shape.
What is a liquid?
Provide evidence that supports the claim that the mass of an object affects the force needed to change its motion.
What is pushing a big rock is harder than pushing a soccer ball?
How do we know the environment can change how something looks or acts?
What is if two plants start the same but one gets more sunlight, it grows taller?
What’s one way we know Earth rotates?
What is we see the sun "move" across the sky, but really, Earth is spinning?
This is the term for the path an object follows as it moves around another object in space.
What is an orbit?
Explain how the particles in a gas differ from those in a solid.
What is: In a gas, particles move freely and are widely spaced, whereas in a solid, particles are closely packed and vibrate in place?
How does a parachute help someone land safely?
What is it catches a lot of air and slows them down so they don’t fall too fast?
Why is it good for a species to have differences?
What is if the weather changes, some might survive better because they have the right traits?
hy does the Moon look different every night?
What is it moves around Earth, and the sunlight hits it differently?
This is the idea that mass is not lost or gained in a closed system, even when matter changes form
What is the law of conservation of mass?
If you mix things together in a closed jar and they change, how do we know the mass stays the same?
What is the weight of everything before and after is the same, even if it looks different?
How magnets pull things without touching them
What is they have an invisible force field around them that pulls metal things closer?
How do farmers make sure their plants or animals have the best traits?
What is they pick the best ones to be parents, so the babies have those same traits?
What’s a way we can tell the seasons are changing?
What is the weather changes, and the days get longer or shorter?
This is a natural cycle that affects the brightness of the Moon as seen from Earth, changing from a full circle to a thin crescent over about a month.
What is the lunar cycle?