Physical Science
What are the three states of Matter?
What is Solid, Liquid, Gas?
What kind of rocks are intrusive and extrusive?
Igneous
What is the law that describes layers and fossil distribution?
law of superposition
What are the three types of rocks called?
Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic
the sun is a star that appears _______ and brighter than other stars because it is _______.
Larger, closer
Casey is given a sample mixture containing calcium carbonate, glucose, iron filings, and silica sand. Which of the materials could be separated out with a magnet?
What are iron filings?
This scientific process is how plants take matter that is not food (light, air, water, and soil) and turn it in to matter that is food.
What is photosynthesis?
Lakes, rivers, glaciers, ground water, and polar ice caps are all examples of this.
What is fresh water around the world.
Describe a sedimentary rock.
Sedimentary rocks have different layers.
What is the breaking down of rocks?
What is Weathering/Erosion ?
Burning a piece of wood is an example of this type of reaction:
Chemical reaction, atoms are rearranged, and the process is irreversible.
Newly introduced species can do what to a ecosystem?
Make it unbalanced, throw off functions
Name the 2 types of Tides
Spring and neap
Describe 2 pieces of evidence that support the theory that tectonic plates move
Pangea (puzzle pieces, fossil appearances, plate tectonics) Earthquakes, Tsunami's
The dropping off of weathered rock at the end of erosion.
What is deposition?
What causes Ocean water to move?
This process eventually restores (recycles) some materials back to the soil after a plant or animal's death.
What is decomposition?
What is the process called where plants give water to the atmosphere.
transpiration
What is a nonrenewable resource? Give two examples.
A nonrenewable resource is a resource that cannot be replaced in our lifetime. Examples: (Fossil Fuels) Natural Gas, Coal, Oil.
What are the stages of the water cycle?
Evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff
Solve this equation (on white board)
answer 1,5,3,4
If you go far enough down the food chain, food of almost any kind of animal can be traced back to _____.
Producers (plants)
Name the 5 different types of fossils
Cast, mold, persevered (crystallization, amber, unaltered), carbonization, trace
What are the criteria's for living? list 2
Reproduce, have cell growth, require energy (food), interact with their environment.
how do you identify the number of neutrons in an atom?
subtract the mass number from the atomic number. mass - protons = neutrons