Physical Science
What are the three states of Matter?
The process in which plants create their own energy
What is photosynthesis
1 year on earth is caused by?
What are the three types of rocks called?
Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic
What type of energy is sunlight?
Radiation
Energy Always travels from Hot to?
What is cold
What to things do plants need to start photosynthesis
What is Carbon Dioxide and Water?
Why does the Earth revolve around the Sun and not the Sun around the Earth?
The sun has more mass which causes a larger gravitational pull
What is the breaking down of rock from snow, rain, wind?
Weathering
What is a wavelength?
distance from crest to crest or trough to trough
Heat transfer through touch is called
What is conduction
What two things do plants produce when undergoing photosynthesis?
Oxygen and Glucose
What causes an igneous and a metamorphic rock to change into a sedimentary rock?
Weathering
Why do we have marine fossils at the top of the Big Horn Mountains
In the past Wyoming used to be underwater
Why does the brick wall appear white?
All three colors are reflected back
Heat energy from the sun is a type of?
What is thermal radiation
Heterozygous means?
What is having two different alleles
What is Plate tectonics and convection currents in the mantle
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.
An object has more gravitational pull because it has more?
Mass
Magma rising and falling in the mantle, Hot water rising and falling while boiling, Air particles rising and falling when heating up to create wind is considered to be?
What is convection currents
To be considered living organisms must meet 6 characteristics of life : contain DNA, utilize energy, Reproduce, Respond to the environment, Grow and develop and ....
What is made up of cells
Type of evidence acts as a record of changes in species over time and indicates major changes in Earth’s surface and climate
What the fossil record?
What are convection currents?
particles heat up rise and fall. This can happen in air, water, magma
What is the difference between exothermic vs endothermic chemical reactions
Exothermic releases energy gets hot. Endothermic takes in energy making it get cold