Matter & Its Interactions
This is anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
Organisms that make their own food through photosynthesis.
What are producers?
The star at the center of our solar system.
What is the Sun?
A push or a pull that causes an object to move.
What is force?
The first step of the scientific method.
What is asking a question?
Matter exists in these three common states.
What are solid, liquid, and gas?
An animal that only eats plants.
What is a herbivore?
The planet known as the "Red Planet."
What is Mars?
This scientist developed the three laws of motion.
Who is Isaac Newton?
A testable statement or prediction.
What is a hypothesis?
The process where a liquid changes into a gas.
What is evaporation?
The role an organism plays in its ecosystem.
What is a niche?
The continuous movement of water through evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
What is the water cycle?
The force that slows down moving objects when they touch each other.
What is friction?
The type of data that includes numbers and measurements.
What is quantitative data?
When two substances combine to form a new substance with different properties.
What is a chemical reaction?
A non-living part of an ecosystem that affects living things.
What is an abiotic factor?
The force that keeps planets in orbit around the Sun.
What is gravity?
When an object moves at a steady speed without speeding up or slowing down.
What is constant motion?
A variable that is changed on purpose in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
The amount of space an object takes up.
What is volume?
The process where dead organisms are broken down and nutrients return to the soil.
What is decomposition?
The Earth's outermost layer.
What is the crust?
The force that pulls objects toward the center of the Earth.
What is gravity?
A conclusion based on observations and evidence.
What is an inference?