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The weather tool that measures the amount of precipitation that has fallen. 

What is a "Rain Gauge"? 

100

The natural resource that provides habitat, oxygen, and housebuilding materials. 

What are "trees"? 

100

The parts of the experiment that stay the same during all trials. 

What is "control" or "constant"? 

100

The combination of french fries and chicken nuggets is an example of: 

What is a "Mixture"? 

100
The fourth, less commonly known, state of matter.

What is "Plasma"?

200

The type of cloud that is fluffy and white like a cotton ball. 

What is "cumulus"? 

200

The body of saltwater that is encloses continents. 

What is the "Ocean"? 

200

The part of the experiment that the experimenter changes to determine/test what will happen. 

What is "the independent variable"?

200
The process of matter moving from a gas to a liquid. 

What is "Condensation"?

200

The definition weather tool that measures BOTH wind direction and wind speed.

What is "wind sock"?

300

The type of storm that forms over warm water and eventually hits land bringing strong winds and heavy rain. 

What is a "Hurricane"? 

300
All rivers flow: 

What is "downhill"? 

300
Lexis and Christopher were at school doing an experiment for class. For the experiment, they had to freeze five types of liquid and see which one melted the fastest. Lexis wrote down "If we take the liquids out of the freezer, then the syrup will melt the fastest." This statement is an example of: 

What is a "Hypothesis"? 

300

When the molecules are speeding up, the phases of matter goes from: 

What is "Solid, to Liquid, to Gas"?

300

The type of matter that cannot be seen, or observed, but is speculated to take up most of the unknown universe. 

What is "Dark Matter"? 

400

The type of weather tool that measures wind speed. 

What is "anemometer"? 

400
All of the land that collects surface water and funnels it into streams, rivers, bays and eventually the ocean. 

What is a "Watershed"? 

400

Samaje and Marcus noticed that balloons you blow air into with your mouth don't fly up in the air but balloons that you put air into from the pump at the store DO fly up in the air. Samaje said: "The air from our mouths must be heavier or something." Her statement is an example of: 

What is an "Inference"? 

400

The type of matter that takes the shape of its container but has a definite volume. 

What is "Liquid"? 
400

The OTHER thing farmers build (not trees) that help to fight erosion on farmlands.

What is a "terrace"? 

500

The weather tool that meteorologists send high into the sky to collect lots of information about the weather so that they can make a rounded prediction. 

What is "a weather balloon"? 

500

The phrase that means that the things we do to our water can affect the people, plants, and animals that live downstream. 

What is "We All Live Downstream"?

500
Matthew and Cameron wanted to know how long animals can are raised before their parents decide that they are old enough to fetch their own food. They came up with this idea because Matt saw that ducklings are often walking around by themselves near a pond but kittens are rarely ever doing so. What Matt saw is an example of: 

What is an "Observation"? 

500

The definition of matter.

What is "Anything that takes up space or has mass."

500

The meaning of "alto" in altostratus cloud. 

What is "middle"?