Plants World
What is the first step in the sexual reproduction of plants?
What is pollination?
Mr. Davis wants his class to keep a journal of the changes in the observable
shape of the Moon. If Mr. Davis wants the students to see each phase just once,
how long should he instruct the students to keep the journal?
What is a month?
Aiesha is making a list of living things that are consumers – meaning they cannot produce their own food. Name one of the following that should be on her list: a daisy, a grasshopper, moss, or a rosebush.
What is a grasshopper?
Minerals can be identified by their properties. What are the 4 properties used to identify minerals?
What are luster, streak, color, hardness
This is a solid object found in nature that is made up of one or more different minerals.
What is a Rock?
Think about blowing on a fluffy dandelion head and watching the seeds float away. This is how plants move to new spots using wind, water, or animals. What is this process of spreading seeds called?"
What is seed dispersal?
The term "Waxing" tells us the Moon is getting bigger. If tonight we see a Waxing Crescent Moon in the Northern Hemisphere, what is the next major phase we would expect to see in about a week?
What is First Quarter?
This big, bright star provides the very first bit of energy for every food chain on Earth.
What is the Sun?
Which type of rock develops from lava?
What is igneous rock.
Beaches in Palm Beach County are shrinking due to erosion. Which of the following – gravity, ice, water, or wind – causes the most erosion of these beaches in the shortest amount of time
What is water?
Butterflies go through four distinct life stages: egg, larva (caterpillar), pupa (chrysalis), and adult. Moths also have an egg stage, a larva stage (caterpillar), and an adult stage. What type of life cycle, involving these four distinct stages of transformation, do both butterflies and moths experience?
What is both organisms undergo complete metamorphosis?
Kimmy noticed that she can see certain star groups in the winter sky that she can't see in the summer sky. What movement of our planet is the main reason why some constellations are only visible during specific times of the year?
What is Earth moving around the Sun?
In any food chain, the plants make their own food using energy from the sun. When an animal eats a plant, or another animal that ate a plant, in which direction does the energy move between these living things?
What is from producers to consumers?
What are the three main categories of rocks?
What are metamorphic, sedimentary, igneous.
This example shows a rock being broken down or changed, but the pieces are not being moved away. Name the process demonstrated when a boulder cracks as water freezes and thaws in its surface holes.
What is weathering?
This is the scientific term for the process by which a seed begins to grow and sprout into a young plant, marking the start of a new life.
What is germination?
If the speed of Earth's rotation were to increase, what would most likely happen to the length of our days and nights?
What is they would become shorter?
Unlike a grasshopper that hatches as a nymph resembling a small adult, insects like butterflies have a larval stage (like a caterpillar) and then a pupa stage before becoming an adult. What term describes this 'fully changed' life cycle with four distinct stages?
What is complete metamorphosis?
In which type of rock are fossils most often found?
What is sedimentary rock.
Jackson enjoys looking through his telescope. He's noticed that the familiar groups of stars he sees, like the Big Dipper, which is a type of star pattern called a __________, aren't always visible in the same place in the sky depending on the time of year.
What is a constellation?
Unlike grasses, which are flowering plants that reproduce using seeds, ferns have a different way of making new plants. Ferns reproduce using tiny structures called __________.
What are spores?
Zarah's class is modeling the movements of the Earth and the Sun. The teacher
places a lamp on a table to represent the Sun and asks Zarah to represent the
Earth. To demonstrate the cause of day and night, Zarah begins to spin around in
place in front of the lamp (Sun). Next, Zarah's teacher asks her to demonstrate
what movement could show one year of days and nights on Earth.
She should continue spinning and move all the way around the lamp.
Grasshoppers hatch as nymphs that look like small adults, going through just three stages. What kind of 'not complete' change is this?
What is incomplete metamorphosis?
Which statement below correctly describes the difference between weathering
and erosion?
A. Erosion breaks down rocks, while weathering moves sediment.
B. Weathering breaks down rocks, while erosion moves sediment.
C. Weathering is the transportation of water, wind, or ice, while erosion is the
separation of rocks.
D. Erosion is the transportation of water, wind, or ice, while weathering is the
layering of material that builds rock layers.
What is
B. Weathering breaks down rocks, while erosion moves sediment.
To correctly model one full year, with Sonia representing the Sun and Eddie representing the Earth, what movement should Eddie make relative to Sonia?
What is Eddie should walk in a circle around Sonia while simultaneously turning (spinning) on his own axis?