6th Grade Science
This is the term for a consumer who eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
Is the type of plate boundary where the sea - floor spreading occurs
what is divergent?
Double Jeopardy!
Is the maximum number of valence electrons that an element can have
What is 8?
Double Jeopardy!
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?
Double Jeopardy!
The planet in the solar system with the shortest year
What is Mercury?
These are the 5 characteristics of all living things.
What is respond, organization (cells/DNA), growth and development, use energy, and reproduce?
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?
1:1 (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?
Double Jeopardy!
Is has the longest wavelength in the electromagnetic spectrum
what is radio wave?
Organelle where cellular respiration takes place
what is mitochondria?
These are 2 reactants and 2 products of cellular respiration.
Reactants - food (glucose) and oxygen
Products - ATP, water, and CO2
They are loose collection of ice, dust, and small rocky particles whose orbits can be very long.
What is a comet?
Double Jeopardy!
Earth's atmosphere is composed of abut 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?