Vocabulary
A set of interacting parts forming a complex whole.
What is "system"?
This is the type of light that human eyes can see.
What is visible light?
A way of hiding from predators or danger by looking similar to one's environment.
What is camouflage?
This is at the center of the solar system.
What is the sun?
This concept covers the idea of having someone's permission before you are intimate with them.
What is consent?
An object, diagram, or computer program that helps us understand something by making it simpler or easier to see.
What is "model"?
True or False?
All light sources emit the same type of light.
What is false? (Or just "False.")
The process of an organism being better suited to survive in its environment, so it is able to reproduce and pass on its adaptive traits
What is natural selection?
The nearly circular path a smaller object (like the Moon) travels around a larger object (like Earth) is called this.
What is "orbit"?
The two major forms of energy.
What is/are kinetic and potential energy?
To give off.
What is "emit"?
Lights travel in this pattern/motion.
What is a wave?
True or false?
An organism's adaptations will always be helpful to surviving in its environment because it would not reproduce otherwise.
What is false? (Or just "False.")
The five phases of the moon. (Hint: Not "waxing" or "waning" moons)
What are new moon, crescent moon, quarter moon, gibbous moon, and full moon?
Magnets follow particular rules about how they do and don't interact, but one common phrase sums it up that also describes unlikely relationships.
What is "opposites attract"?
A trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment.
What is "adaptive trait"?
Damage is done to genetic material such as DNA when it does this with some types of light.
What is absorb some of its energy?
This process takes generations and uses natural selection to explain how new species form over time.
What is evolution?
Lunar eclipses occur when the Earth comes between the moon and the sun, which means they happen during this lunar phase.
What is a full moon?
These are machines that can take kinetic energy, such as from flowing water, and convert it into the electrical energy that powers modern life.
What is a generator?
The space around a magnet in which magnetic forces can act on objects.
What is "magnetic field"?
A light's energy is determined by this aspect of the light.
What is wavelength?
Two organisms on an evolutionary tree that branch off of the same organism are called this.
What is a descendant species?
The moon is red during a lunar eclipse because of this.
What is light scattering/bending/passing through Earth's atmosphere?
2 magnets store energy in their magnetic field lines when they are moving against this.
What is the magnetic force?