6th Grade Science
This is the term for a consumer who eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
This type of plate boundary occurs where sea floor spreading occurs
what is divergent?
The maximum number of valence electrons that an element can have
What is 8?
This is the name of the last group on the periodic table that contains elements with full outer shells that are non-metals and the least chemically reactive.
What are the Noble Gases?
This is thing in an experiment that the scientist changes on purpose (the cause).
What is the independent variable?
This is the term for substances, such as carbon dioxide and methane, that trap heat in our atmosphere.
What is a "greenhouse gas?"
Asexual reproduction type that occurs when a nucleus divides
What is mitosis?
SI unit for force
What is Newton?
This is the term for when a substance changes directly from a solid to a gas (such as dry ice).
What is sublimation?
The planet in the solar system with the shortest year
What is Mercury?
This inner lining of a cell is useful in keeping certain things out and important things inside.
What is cell membrane?
Gray fur is dominant to white fur. A heterozygous mouse and a white mouse mate. What is the expected ratio of gray to white in the offspring?
What is 1:1 or (2:2)?
Matter is not created or destroyed
What is the Law of Conservation of Mass?
These two subatomic particles make up the mass of an atom.
What are protons and neutrons?
Is the element that comprises most of the mass of the sun
what is hydrogen?
These are three differences between plant and animal cells (be specific).
What are plants have chloroplasts, a cell wall, and a larger vacuole?
Is has the longest wavelength in the electromagnetic spectrum
what is radio wave?
Organelle where cellular respiration takes place
what is mitochondria?
C6H12O6 + 6O2 --> 6CO2 + 6H2O + ATP
What is the formula for cellular respiration?
They are loose collection of ice, dust, and small rocky particles whose orbits can be very long.
What is a comet?
Earth's atmosphere is composed of about 78% of this element
What is nitrogen?
Is the number of waves that pass a given point in a certain amount of time.
What is frequency?
Elements and compounds are classified as this.
What are pure substances?
Term used for describing a model of the Universe where the Earth is at the center and the sun and other planets revolve around it
What is geocentric?
The part of the atmosphere responsible for blocking out the majority of the sun's U.V. radiation
What is the Ozone?