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Forces & Motion
Water & Weather
Heredity
Cell Structure
Scientific Method
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The tendency of an object to resist change in motion.
What is inertia.
100
The layer of gases that surrounds the Earth.
What is the atmosphere.
100
A strong inherited trait represented in a punnett square with a capital letter.
What is a dominant trait.
100
Name the organelles: (Two answers) A. Holds the cell together and allows substances to pass in and out. B. Digests and breaks down cell material.
What are A. cell membrane B. lysosome
100
A good way to test a hypothesis.
What is to perform an experiment.
200
The force of gravity on a person or object on the surface of a planet.
What is weight.
200
The layers of the atmosphere from Earth to space.
What are troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere.
200
A weaker trait that is masked by the dominant trait. Represented by lower case lettering in the punnett square.
What is a recessive trait.
200
Name the organelles: (Two answers) A. Makes food for a plant cell through photosynthesis. B. Holds organelles in place.
What are: A. chloroplasts B. cytoplasm
200
Using logical reasoning to draw a conclusion.
What is inferring.
300
(Three answers) A. The rate at which velocity changes. B. Distance traveled divided by the time it took. C. Speed in a given direction.
What are A. acceleration B. speed C. velocity
300
Differences in this are what cause the winds.
What is air pressure.
300
A plant with traits Tt is crossed with a plant whose traits are tt. A. How many of the offspring will be tT? B. Will the trait be dominant or recessive?
What are A. 2 B. dominant
300
Name the organelles: (Two answers) A. Makes proteins for the cell to grow and repair itself. B. Receives, stores, packages and ships proteins through a cell.
What are: A. ribosomes B. golgi bodies
300
Skills we use to find things out when we conduct a scientific investigation.
What are inquiry skills.
400
(Three answers) Name the Law of Motion: A. The achievement of lifting a rocket into outer space. B. The ability of a book to stay motionless unless picked up. C. Pushing a cart weighing 20 lbs. takes double the force of pushing a cart weighing 10lbs.
A. Newton's 3rd Law B. Newton's 1st Law C. Newton's 2nd Law
400
(Four Answers) A. Very high feathery clouds B. Low, layered clouds that often cover much of the sky. C. Large clouds that produce thunderstorms. D. Large pillow or cottonball like clouds.
What are A. cirrus B. stratus C. cumulonimbus D. cumulus clouds.
400
(Two Answers) A. A plant with traits Tt is crossed with another plant Tt. A. What percent of the offspring will be tt? B. Will this be a dominant or recessive trait?
A. 25% B. recessive trait
400
The basic living unit of all organisms.
What is the cell.
400
Using two different-size foam balls to represent Earth and the moon.
What is scientific modeling.
500
Name Newton's Law and fill in the missing word(s). A. For every action there is an opposite and equal ______. B. An object at ____ will stay at ____ and an object in motion will stay in motion unless acted upon by an ________ force. C. ______ equals mass times ________.
What are A. reaction and Newton's 3rd Law B. rest, rest, unbalanced and Newton's 1st Law C. force, acceleration and Newton's 2nd Law
500
(Three Answers) A. When a warm air mass overtakes a cold air mass. B. When a warm air mass and a cold air mass meeet and neither can move the other. C. When a cold air mass overtakes a warm air mass.
A. warm front B. stationary front C. cold front
500
A. The Father of Genetics. B. He used this to observe and collect data.
A. Mendel B. Pea Plants
500
The five structural levels of an organism. (In order from smallest to largest.)
What are cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism.
500
The steps of the scientific method in order from beginning to end.
What are state the problem or question, form a hypothesis, perform an experiment, collect and analyze data, draw conclusions.