Science Review

Zoology

100

What is an animal called that DOES NOT have a backbone?

Invertebrate

200

What is an animal that eats BOTH meat and plants?

An omnivore

300

Is camouflaging a physical or behavioural adaptation?

Physical adaptation

400

A spider belongs to what invertebrate group?

Arachnids

500

Name the five vertebrate groups we talked about. 

Fish, Birds, Reptiles, Amphibians, Mammals

Botany

100

What part of the plant makes food?

The leaf

200

If you were to eat a carrot, you are eating what part of the plant?

Root

300

What is the name of the process that plants use to make food?

Photosynthesis

400

How to animals help spread seeds?

Eat fruit and move seeds somewhere else OR seeds can attach themselves to their fur

500

What four things is soil made out of?

Solid particles, water, air, organic matter

Space

100

Name a dwarf planet. 

Pluto, Ceres, Haumea, Makemake, Eris

200

What is the name of the beginnging of a star?

Prostar

300

What do you call an imagined picture that is formed by stars?

Constellation

400

What is the name of our galaxy?

The Milky Way Galaxy

500

Name all of the planets in order.

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

Hydrosphere

100

The word "hydrosphere" is talking about what part of the earth?

Water

200

When a small part of a glacier breaks off and float away, it becomes a what? 

Iceberg

300

What do you call a body of water that is completely landlocked?

Lake

400

What is the name of the longest river in the world? 

The Nile River

500

Explain the water cycle. 

• Precipitation: the water falls to the earth from the clouds in the atmosphere. There are different ways that the water can fall back to the earth. Who can name a few? (rain, hail, snow, sleet). Precipitation collects in rivers, lakes, and oceans. It also seeps into the ground and is taken up by plants.
• Evaporation: moisture from the earth’s surface rises into the atmosphere. Why does this moisture rise? Because the sun is really hot and it heats up the surface of the earth. When water heats up, it turns into a gas (which is also called water vapor) and float back up into the atmosphere.
• Condensation: when water vapor gets cold, it turns back into a liquid. The water vapor rises higher and higher into the air. The higher you get in the atmosphere, the colder the air becomes and when the warm water vapor meets this cold air, it turns back into a liquid. These droplets of water collect together and create the clouds that we see in the sky. When the clouds become too heavy to hold all of the water droplets, they release the water in the form of precipitation. Then the whole process begins again.

Lithosphere

100

What is lava called before it comes out of the volcano?

Magma

200

What is a flat area of land called?

A plain or prairie

300

What are the four layers of the earth?

Crust, mantle, outer core, inner core

400

Tell me one way that a mountain is formed. 

Tectonic plates moving towards each other, tectonic plates moving away from each other, volcanic eruptions

500

What are the three kinds of rocks?

Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic