EARTH MATTERS
SPACE STUFF
LIFE LESSONS
PHYSICAL SCIENCE PHUN
CROSS-CUTTING CONCEPTS
100

Break down of rock into sediment

What is weathering?

100

number of days it take Earth to orbit the Sun

What is 365?

100

Any trait that helps an insect survive in a new environment

What is rapid reproduction, escape predators, diverse diets and amour to hold in water?

100

in a chemical change, metals react with oxygen to form this new substance

What is rust?

100

regularly occurring shapes or structures, or repeating events or relationships

What are Patterns?

200

Moving sediment to a new location over time

What is Erosion?

200

causes seasons to occur

What is Earth's tilted axis?

200

Colors and patterns of organisms that can help organisms survive and reproduce more often by blending in environment

What is camouflage?

200

Combine baking soda & vinegar in a flask and cover with a balloon. How will you know new substances are formed and energy is released?

What is new gas formed because bubbles are released blowing up balloon?

200

used to predict phenomena in natural or designed systems

What is Cause and Effect?

300

Reason some regions are more likely to experience earthquakes than others

What are some regions are located near tectonic plate boundaries?

300

force responsible for keeping a satellite in orbit

What is gravitational force?

300

result for a population when resources such as food and space become limited

What is population will slow growth or decline?

300

two ways gas particles are different than solid particles

What is particles move faster and farther apart?

300

the shape of natural and designed objects and what  they do

What is structure and function?

400

evidence that rocks in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean are younger than rocks closer to continents

What is new ocean crust forms at mid-ocean ridges?

400

reason why orbital speed decreases as distance from planet increases

What is gravitational force becomes weaker

400

If disease kills small fish that eat insects, what will happen right after the small fish population decreases?

What is insect population increases?

400

Two carts with different masses are pushed with same force. Explain the difference in acceleration.

What is the cart with more mass accelerates less?

400

fields of motion, potential, kinetic. Also the relationship to anything that has mass and takes up space.

What is energy and matter?

500

result when increased urban development replaces natural land with roads and buildings

What is increased flooding during heavy rain?

500

different parts of the moon are lit by the sun as it orbits earth

Why does the moon appear to change shape or have "phases" when viewed from Earth?

500

reason a trait would become more common in a population

What is it provides a survival advantage?

500

In design of electric cars, what is the goal? and what is the trade-off?

GOAL-reduce air pollution & dependence on fossil fuel   TRADE OFF- higher battery production

500

different numbers, sizes and times and the relationship between them

What is scale, proportion and quantity?