This type of animal hatches from an egg, breathes through gills when it is young, and mainly lives on land as an adult. This animal is classified as an _______________.
What is an amphibian?
100
This is the length of the moon's cycle.
What is approximately one month?
100
This type of fastener could be used to attach two pieces of wood.
What is a (screw, nail, nut and bolt)?
100
A copper wire, a steel nail, and water are examples of these.
What are conductors?
100
This is the breaking down of rocks through wind, water, ice, and growing plants.
What is weathering?
200
Fur, webbed feet, spikes and odor are examples of this.
What are adaptations?
200
This device measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
200
An ax is an example of this simple machine.
What is a wedge?
200
This is the process that occurs when water changes from liquid to gas, caused by heat.
What is evaporation?
200
This type of rock is formed by existing rocks that have been heated and squeezed deep inside the earth's crust.
What is metamorphic?
300
This is the process that makes it possible for plants to use energy from sunlight to produce their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
300
The cooling of water in the atmosphere, transforming gas to liquid, happens during this part of the water cycle.
What is condensation?
300
These are the six simple machines.
What are lever, wedge, pulley, screw, wheel and axle, inclined plane?
300
Name three different types of energy.
What is (heat, light, sound, electrical, chemical, nuclear, mechanical)?
300
This type of organism gets energy from feeding on dead materials and waste.
What is a decomposer?
400
This part of a plant is most responsible for using energy from the Sun to produce food for the plant.
What is a leaf?
400
This is the process of carrying weathered materials away from a place.
What is erosion?
400
The students in an engineering class built a robot that stacks wooden blocks. A built-in computer controls the movement of the robot. The computer in the robot performs a function most similar to this part of the human body.
What is the brain?
400
This is a pathway that electrons flow through.
What is an electrical circuit?
400
This is formed when a metal is temporarily charged with electrons created by the flow of a current.
What is an electromagnet?
500
This instinctual behavior is characterized by a drop in body temperature, slow breathing, and a decrease in heart rate.
What is hibernation?
500
This scale tests the hardness of earth's minerals.
What is Mohs Hardness Scale?
500
These are the three parts of a lever system.
What is load (or object), fulcrum, and force.
500
Energy stored in foods you eat, and fuels such as wood and gasoline, are examples of this type of energy.
What is chemical energy?
500
Electrical energy is transformed into this type of energy when music plays through the speaker of a radio.