Science Tools & Skills
This classic tool uses a magnetic needle to point north and help you find your way.
Compass
Green plants use sunlight, water, and air to make their own food through this process.
Photosynthesis
What is melted rock called after it reaches Earth's surface?
Lava
What planet do we live on?
Earth
The pink organ inside your head that acts like the main computer for your whole body.
Brain
Scientists use this tool with glass lenses to make tiny things, like plant cells, look much bigger.
Microscope
This word describes an animal, like a bear or a human, that eats both plants and meat.
Omnivore
What causes day and night?
Earth's rotation
Which planet is known as the "Red Planet"
Mars
This is the outer layer that covers your entire body, protecting you from germs and helping you feel temperature.
Skin
This is the smart guess or educated prediction you make at the start of an experiment.
Hypothesis
Animals like birds and whales do this when they travel long distances to warmer places for the winter.
Migration
These are the three main types of rocks found on Earth: igneous, sedimentary, and this third type.
Metamorphic
What galaxy do we live in?
Milky Way
The long tube that food travels down right after you swallow it.
Esophagus
This tool uses two small dishes on a beam to compare the weight or mass of two different objects.
Balance scale
A feature or behavior that helps a living thing survive in its environment, like a camel's hump or a cactus storing water.
Adaptation
This thing breaks down dead plants and animals.
Decomposer
This is the largest planet in our solar system, famous for its Great Red Spot.
Jupiter
These bean-shaped organs filter your blood and help clean out waste from your body.
Kidneys
This is the name for the information, numbers, or facts that a scientist collects and writes down during an experiment.
Data
A diagram that shows how energy passes from the sun to a plant, then to a grasshopper, and finally to a bird
Food chain
What is the process called when a caterpillar changes into a butterfly?
Metamorphosis
It takes the Earth exactly this long to make one full trip or orbit all the way around the sun.
One year or 365 days
These are the stretchy bands attached to your skeleton that tighten and loosen to help your body move.
Muscles