Life Science
The part of the cell that controls the cell’s activities.
What is the Nucleus?
The force that keeps planets in orbit around the Sun?
What is Gravity?
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
The tool that is used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
A type of adaptation that helps an animal blend into it's surroundings.
What is camouflage?
The process that plants use to make their own food using sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
This is what causes day and night on Earth.
What is the Earth's Rotation?
The type of energy that can be stored.
What is Potential Energy?
Information about the natural world that scientists use to support or refute a claim.
What is Evidence?
This force resists motion when two objects rub against each other.
What is friction?
This is what we call animals that eat both plants and animals.
What is an Omnivore?
The layer of the Earth that is made of molten rock.
What is the Mantle?
Name two signs that a chemical reaction has occured.
What is bubbles/fizzing, color change, temperature change, odor change, or the formation of a new solid?
The tool that is used to observe something that is too small to see with the naked eye.
What is a Microscope?
The smallest unit of matter.
What is an atom?
The system in the human body that is responsible for breathing.
What is the respiratory system?
The type of rock that is formed from cooled lava or magma.
What is igneous rock?
The law that states energy can not be created or destroyed, only converted from one form to another.
What is the Law of The Conservation of Energy?
The reason that repeated trials are important in experiments.
What is to make the results more reliable?
This slow process breaks down rocks into smaller pieces without changing their composition.
What is Weathering?
This is the name for a group of the same type of organisms living in the same area.
What is a population?
This massive gassy planet is larger than any of the other planets combined.
What is Jupiter?
Name three of the four fundamental states of matter.
What is a solid, a liquid, and a gas? The fourth is Plasma, Lightning is a form of Plasma. Plasma occurs at very high temperatures.
A piece of science equipment that a biologist would use to grow and observe a bacterial culture.
What is a Petri Dish?
The term that describes the speed and direction of an object?
What is velocity?