Scientific Investigation
Force, Motion, Energy, Matter
Life Systems
Ecosystems
Earth and Space
100

The part that doesn't change during the experiment.

What is a constant?

100

Energy an object has due to its position above Earth's surface.

What is Mechanical energy?

100

Cells -> Tissues -> Organs -> Systems -> Organisms.

What is Cellular Organization?

100

Shows the feeding relationships within an ecosystem.  It is made up of overlapping food chains and is more a complete model of energy flow. 

What is a food web?

100

Describes what happens to the solar energy coming in.  About one third is reflected back to space.

What is Earth's energy budget?

200

6.03 kg= ___dag=___g

What is 603, 6,030?

200

Made up of two or more substances that are not chemically combined to make a new substance.

What is a mixture?

200

The process in which a cell nucleus divides into two new nuclei, each containing the same number of chromosomes as the parent.

What is Mitosis?

200

Animal help one another get food and water, defend themselves, and build a shelter to share.

What is cooperation?

200

The outermost region of a planet's atmosphere.

What is the exosphere?

300

Example:  If i add more water to the plant, then it will grow faster.

What is a hypothesis?

300

Given to you by the distance divided by the time.

What is speed?

300

When both genes are for a trait are the same: AA or aa.

What is homozygous or purebred?

300

Contains hierarchies, or levels, below a dominant member of the species.  Ensures labor and resources are equally shared.

What is social order?

300

Individual, puffy, white with fairly fat bases.  Form at different heights in the troposphere.

What are cumulus clouds?

400

A guess based on your observations.

What is an inference?

400

Mass x Acceleration

What is force?

400

The makeup of your genes.

What is a genotype?

400

The role an organism plays in the community.

What is a niche?

400

The most violent type of storm; appears as rotating funnel-shaped clouds that stretch from the base of the storm cloud to the ground.

What is a tornado?

500

The measurement of mass per unit of volume.

What is density?

500

Light waves travel through this type of wave.

What is a transverse wave?

500

The first observation of cells was seen by who?

Robert Hooke

500

Found in area with long, cold winters.  Consists mostly of evergreens like pine trees; also called taiga.

What is the coniferous forest?

500

Caused by the gravitational pull from the moon and the sun on Earth's waters.

What is a tide?