Science Topics
Space
Water
Energy
Matter
Weather
100
The two words every hypothesis needs to be formatted correctly.
What are If and Then?
100
This moon phase
What is a waning gibbous?
100
The chemical formula for the compound WATER.
What is H2O?
100
How the Sun's energy is formed.
What is Nuclear Fusion?
100
The part of an atom that has a NEUTRAL charge, meaning it's not positive OR negative.
What is a NEUTRON?
100
Theses storms are the largest and most powerful storms on the planet.
What are hurricanes?
200
All living things or things made of cells in an ecosystem.
What is biotic?
200
Name these three types of Space Rock: (number your answers)
1. Space rock that hits the Earth's surface.
2. Space rock that burns up in Earth's atmosphere.
3. Space rock that is formed from pieces of asteroids and comets that remain in space.
What are:
1. Meteorites
2. Meteors
3. Meteoroids
200
The location where the part of Virginia labeled 3 drains to.
What are North Carolina Sounds.
200
Cookies are a type of THIS energy.
What is chemical energy?
200
A change in a substance that produces a totally new and different substance is called
_______________________, often creating heat, bubbles, or an odor.
What is a CHEMICAL CHANGE?
200
This air mass is wet and warm. It needs two parts to its name.
What is Maritime (wet) and Tropical (warm).
300
Energy resources that can be replaced in a short amount of time.
What are RENEWABLE RESOURCES?
300
The gravity of THIS object has the MOST impact on Earth's tides.
What is the MOON?
300
A wetland filled with lots of grasses.
What is a MARSH?
300
The point on this roller coaster with the MOST POTENTIAL energy?
What is B?
300
My Mom made me hot chocolate after I got cold sledding. She used warm milk and cocoa mix powder in a mug. Name the SOLUTE.
What is cocoa mix powder?
300
As you climb DOWN a mountain, describe what happens to air pressure.
What is INCREASES?
Lower altitudes mean more air pressure.
400
Water molecules "stick to each other" forming a puddle. This is known as _______________.
What is COHESION?
400
The letter on the diagram that shows the Northern Hemisphere having summer.
What is A?
400
The contour intervals on this map below:
What is 50 miles?
400
These electromagnetic (EM) waves can be felt as heat, like in toasters, but are also in our remote controls and thermal imaging cameras.
What is infrared?
400
Letter "F" in the picture represents THIS part of a chemical equation.
(Reactant or Product)
What is a Product?
The compounds on the right side are being made, or PRODUCED, by the Reactants on left reacting with each other.
400
This causes winds to form: Winds moving from areas of ____ pressure to ____ pressure.
What is Winds moving from areas of HIGH pressure to LOW pressure?
500
The diaper factory next to my house is pouring hot water into the stream. This is (point source or non-point source) pollution.
What is POINT SOURCE pollution?
You can point to the one source of this pollution.
500
The 8 planets listed in order starting with the planet closest to the Sun.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
500
The part of the river labeled 9.
What is a DELTA?
It's the part near the river mouth where sediment is dropped and new land is made.
500
When you touch a hot object with your hand, THIS type of heat transfer is occurring:
- conduction
- convection
- radiation
What is CONDUCTION?
500
The faster the molecules of an object are moving, the ___________ it is.
What is WARMER?
500
This layer of our Earth's atmosphere contains our weather and clouds.
What is the TROPOSPHERE?
600
The Law of Conservation of Matter states that _____________________________
What is Matter can be NEITHER created NOR destroyed.
Energy has the same law. These things can be transformed from one type to another, but it is always the same matter or energy.
600
The first astronomer to describe a HELIOCENTRIC model of the Solar System.
Who was Copernicus?
600
Describe CONDENSATION.
What is the process of water vapor (gas) turning back into a liquid?
As the water vapor gas cools, the molecules slow down and condense back into liquid water.
600
When water is turning from a liquid to water vapor (gas), this is happening to the water's energy.
What is the water is GAINING HEAT energy?
600
The number of sodium (Na) atoms in Washing Soda.
What are 2 Na (sodium) atoms?
600
This city's temperature will most likely get colder within the next day or two.
What is Chicago?