A rocky or metallic object that orbits the Sun and is much smaller than a planet?
Asteroid
100
A property used to describe how a mineral breaks apart along smooth surfaces.
Cleavage
100
The process by which water is changed from a gas (water vapor) to a liquid; a stage in the water cycle?
Condensation
100
Measurements or observations collected and recorded in an experiment or investigation?
Data
100
The pivot point of a lever?
Fulcrum
200
An animal that obtains nutrients from eating other animals?
Carnivore
200
*DOUBLE JEOPARDY*
The average pattern of weather that occurs in a certain location over many years?
Climate
200
To transmit heat, sound, or electricity through a medium?
Conduct
200
The dropping or settling of eroded materials?
Deposition
200
A force that opposes motion through direct conatact?
Friction
300
Name the three types of rocks.
What is sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous.
300
An object made of rock, ice, dust, and gas that revolves around the Sun?
Comet
300
A statement that tells what an investigation showed, based on observations and data?
Conclusion
300
The process by which plants begin to grow from a seed or spore?
Germination
300
A large collection of stars, gases, and dust that are part of the universe bound together by gravitational forces?
Galaxy
400
A plant or animal action, reaction, or activity that occurs in response to stimuli. (e.g., gravity , light, temperature)
Behavior
400
A feature, quality, property, or trait of an object or organism.
characteristic
400
A type of insect development characterized by the presence of a larval stage with different feeding habits?
Complete Metamorphosis
400
A group in a scientific experiment that serves as a reference for comparison to the experimental group; a group that is untreated by factors being tested?
Control Group (constant)
400
*DOUBLE JEOPARDY*
The distance traveled by an object in a given amount of time?
Speed
500
Forces that are EQUAL in size but opposite in direction.
Balanced Forces
500
Process by which substances are changed into different substances with different properties.
Chemical Change
500
Populations of different species of organisms living together in the same geographic area?
Community
500
A quantity that describes the capacity to do work?
Energy
500
A term used to describe the CERTAINTY of data or results of an investigation or experiment? (hint: not Analyze)