Chemical vs. Physical Reactions
Weather Cycles
Energy
Environmental Impacts
Earth Science
100

What are the differences between chemical and physical change?

What is a physical change is when a substance changes form or appearance but stays the same substance, but a chemical change is when a substance becomes a new substance with different properties?

100

Which best describes precipitation?

A) Water falling from clouds as rain, snow, or sleet
B) Water turning into vapor
C) Water collecting in rivers
D) Clouds forming in the sky

What is (A) Water falling from clouds as rain, snow, or sleet.

100

Which item is a conductor of electricity?
A) Rubber
B) Plastic
C) Metal paper clip
D) Wood

What is (C) Metal paper clip?

100

A can being put in a recycling bi.

What is positive?

100

It takes about ______ days for Earth to complete one trip around the Sun.

Bonus: On leap years it takes ______ days for Earth to complete one trip around the Sun.

What is 365?

Bonus: What is 366?

200

Ice melting into water.

What is physical?

200

What is the main source of energy that drives the water cycle?

A) The moon
B) The Sun
C) Wind
D) Clouds

What is (B) The Sun?

200

What happens when a circuit is open?
A) Electricity cannot flow
B) Electricity flows in two directions
C) Electricity flows faster
D) Lights get brighter

What is (A) Electricity cannot flow?

200

Humans building a city where a forest used to be.

What is negative?

200

What causes day and night on Earth

A) Earth revolving around the Sun
B) Moon orbiting Earth
C) Earth rotating on its axis
D) Sun moving around Earth

What is (C) Earth rotating on its axis?

300

Wood burning in a fire.

What is chemical?

300

When water vapor cools and changes into liquid water, this is called:

A) Evaporation
B) Condensation
C) Precipitation
D) Runoff

What is (B) Condensation?

300

Food stores ______ energy that the body uses for movement.

Bonus: What energy transfer is occurring above?

What is Chemical?

Bonus: What is chemical to mechanical?

300

Reforestation of a endangered tree specie.

What is positive.

300

Explain the difference between rotation and revolution.

Bonus: What do each of them cause? (Worth 200)

What is rotation is Earth spinning on its axis and causes day and night, but revolution is Earth orbiting the Sun and causes a year?

400

Sugar dissolving into water.

What is physical?

400

What is the correct order of the water cycle?

A) Precipitation → Evaporation → Condensation
B) Evaporation → Condensation → Precipitation
C) Condensation → Precipitation → Evaporation
D) Runoff → Collection → Evaporation

What is (B) 

Evaporation—>Condensation—>Precipitation?

400

A solar panel changes sunlight into electrical energy
What type of energy transformation is this

A) Electrical to light
B) Radiant to electrical
C) Chemical to thermal
D) Mechanical to sound

What is (B) Radiant to electrical?
400

Fishermen fishing only young fish of one type.

What is negative?

400

Which list shows the planets in correct order from the Sun

A) Earth, Venus, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
B) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
C) Mercury, Earth, Venus, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus
D) Venus, Mercury, Earth, Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus

What is (B) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?

500

A candle wick burning.

What is chemical?

500

What type of cloud is most likely to bring thunderstorms?

A) Cirrus
B) Cumulonimbus
C) Stratus
D) Cumulus humilis

What is (B) Cumulonimbus?

500

A television uses electricity to produce light and sound.
What energy transformations are happening?

1 to 2

What is electrical energy changes into light energy and sound energy?

500

Humans building wind turbines in a field. Explain.

What is both? (If your argument is valid then you get points and no points deducted when ”wrong”)

500

Deltas are usually formed by ______ depositing at the end of rivers over time.

What is sediment?