weight on me!
Can you dig it?
You are spaced out!
Why did they do that?
Our World
100
Hunter mixed 8 grams of peanuts with 4 grams of granola and 9 grams of chocolate chips to make trail mix. His plastic container to carry the mix is 2 grams. What is the mass of the part Hunter will eat?

21 grams

100

This layer holds the youngest fossils

the TOP layer

100

It's the hottest planet

Venus

100

Tara has a puppy named Max. Tara's sister left her puppy Jones with Tara today to play with Max. Then Tara picked up her car keys, Max ran to the door but Jones sat quietly on the floor. Why did both dogs react the way they did?

Tara's dog Max knew that the car keys jingle meant a ride for him in the car but Jones does not know this because he does not live with Tara and is not used to that routine.

100

One of these takes 24 hours.

Rotation of the Earth
200

Because this determines weight, you will weigh less on the moon because there is less of this.

Gravity

200

This layer hold the oldest fossils

the bottom

200

A meteor that strikes Earth is called a 

meteorite

200

Ellie takes her dog to the dog park for the first time. Many owners are playing frisbee with their dogs. They dogs are catching the thrown frisbees but Ellie's dog is sitting by her side. "Run and catch a frisbee" Ellie says , but still her dog sits still. Why?

Ellie's dog has not learned to play frisbee
200

The long trip around the sun

Revolution

300

If we make a density tower, the liquids shift and stack on top of each other according to their density. Where will the liquid with the most weight be?

on the bottom

300

Name two ways that rock and dirt layers might be disturbed that may shift or move fossils around

Earth quake, rock slide, construction zone etc

300

When this object gets close to the sun, it starts to melt leaving a tail of dust and gas behind it

comet

300

Simpson the cat ran from the house to the yard. The new sprinkler system came on and sprayed Simpson. When Simpson came out the next day the same thing happened. On day three, Simpson stayed on the sidewalk away from the sprinklers. Why did it take Simpson 3 days to stop getting wet?

He had to learn that the sprinklers would come on every day and when he goes directly into the yard he will get wet.

300

Nina sees the big dipper in the sky and tells her cousin "when you visit in a few months we will look at the night sky and I will show you the big dipper".

Will Nina be able to do this? why or why not?

No, because we see different constellations throughout the year as we revolve around the sun.

400

Keaton got all the supplies to make lemonade. But when he mixed the lemonade up, the sugar seemed to disappear. When did the lemonade weigh more? 

A. when all the ingredients were on the table waiting to be mixed

B. when all the ingredients are combined

C. they weigh the same

C. they weigh the same

400
Which of the following is something you could not learn from a fossil?

a. type of animal it was

b. color of the animal

c. where the animal lived

d. size of the animal

B. color of the animal

400
This is a circle like path that a smaller object travels around a larger object

orbit

400

The barn swallow bird builds a long tightly woven nest made of twigs and leaves. As Paul looks at all of the nest in the barn he asks his sister, "why do all the nests look the same?" 

what type of trait is this and why do they all look the same?

because building a nest is an instinctual trait all barn swallows know and do the same

400

The Earth is divided into two hemispheres. Identify each

The top is the Northern Hemisphere and the bottom is the Southern Hemisphere

500

Explain how a scale works when it weighs us

The pull of gravity forces the weight of a person down on the scale causing it to move and show the weight.

500

Since mammoth fossils have been recovered and they lived hundreds of years ago and were covered with thick fur. What do we know about the environment they lived in?

It was very cold

500

often extremely large, these space objects orbit the sun and are very misshapen

Asteroid

500

One of Lola's dogs had puppies. The 5 of them are playing when Lola's friend Sutton says, " the one puppy that is limping is different from the others, it must not have the same parents". Is this true and why or why not?

Limping is an acquired trait. That would not be inherited from the parents. 

500

Tilting toward the sun will give that particular area summer and tilting away from the sun will give that area winter. One area stays nearly the same throughout the year because it doesn't really tilt. What are is it?

Equator