Scientific Inquiry
Force and Motion
Matter and Energy
Earth and Space
Organisms
100

A possible answer to a scientific question and is based on gathered information

What is a hypothesis?

100

The ability to do work.

What is energy?

100

Any material that has mass and takes up space.

What is matter?

100

It takes one day, or 24 hours, for the Earth to do this.

What is rotate?

100

The energy in ecosystems comes from this.

What is the sun?

200

Using your senses to gather information.

What is an observation?

200

A push or a pull.

What is a force?

200

The building blocks of all matter.

What are atoms?

200

The outermost, thinnest, least dense layer of Earth.

What is the crust?

200

The basic unit of life.

What is a cell?

300

A process that provides investigators with a logical approach to problem solving.

What is the scientific method?

300

A process through which light energy is converted to chemical energy

What is photosynthesis?

300

Animals that get energy by eating producers (plants) or other consumers

What is a consumer?

300

Earthquakes can be destructive when their vibrations produce giant waves called this.

What is a tsunami?

300

The movement of animals from one place to another in response to seasonal changes

What is migration?

400

The amount of space an object takes up

What is volume?

400

_______= Mass x Acceleration

What is force?

400

The subatomic particle that has a positive charge.

What is a proton?

400

The Earth, the Sun, and the seven other planets that are in orbit around the Sun are part of this.

What is the solar system?

400

A diagram that shows which organisms eat, or are eaten by, other organisms

What is a food chain?

500

He first presented the theory of evolution by natural selection.

Who is Charles Darwin?

500

To know the velocity of an object, you need to know these two factor.

What are speed and direction?

500

This makes up 99% of the mass of an atom.

What is a nucleus?

500

Clusters or groups of stars, dust, and gas that are held together by gravity

What is a galaxy?

500

Changes to an organism's genetic material

What are mutations?