What is a example of lab safety?

What is Natural Selection?

What is Newtons 3rd law?

Where are fossils found?

What plate boundary causes earthquakes?

What are stars mostly made of?

What causes spring tides?

Which process gives off carbon dioxide?

An animal cannot make its own food and must eat other organisms. What term best describes this animal?

Which state o matter has the highest density?

A soccer player kicked a ball, which then rolled across the ground. What type of energy transfer took place when he kicked the ball?

Which best describes the relationship between photosynthesis and respiration?

In which layer does convection occur?

During a storm when you see lightning several seconds usually pass before you hear thunder. What is the reason for this?

Which is the best example of an abiotic factor in an ecosystem.

What three materials are needed in order for photosynthesis to occur?

Which best describes a mechanical transfer of energy?

A shadow forms from perfect alignment of the moon between the Sun and the Earth. What is most likely occurring?

The process by which hot and cold air are transferred in the atmosphere is

Microwave ovens heat food through the process of

What is the main method of heat transfer from the core to the crust of Earth?

Heat is transferred from the heating element to the pot to the boiling water. What is the MOST likely method of heat transfer?

Burning logs in the fire place produce heat energy. The dog gets warm from the fire when heat energy is transferred by

Which image exclusively represents the principle of radiation?

Which would be best categorized as heat transfer by convection?

water freezing to form ice

melting a gold chain to create a gold ring

breaking a window into smaller pieces

I. A chemical change breaks bonds, forms new substances, and is irreversible.

II. Reordering the intermolecular forces is indicative of a chemical change.

III. During a physical change the substance remains the same, no bonds are broken, and the process is reversible.

IV. Permanently altering the makeup of the substance is characteristic of a physical change.

Which conclusion(s) best elaborate(s) on the difference(s) between a chemical change and a physical change?

Adam picked up a bottle of water from his fridge, it felt cold on his hand. What type of heat transfer was this?

Lamar was running down a hill. What type of energy was this?

What type of energy comes from the sun?

Two tectonic plates collided. What caused this?

What is the largest layer of the earth

How do stars form?

The journey water takes water takes as it circulates from the land to the sky and back again.

All of the waters on Earth’s surface

when a liquid to transform into a gas as a result of heating

an area or ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different rivers, basins, or seas.

mass per unit volume; the amount of matter in a given amount of space

when a gas to transform into a liquid as a result of cooling

the draining away of water (or substances carried in it) from the surface of an area of land, a building or structure, etc.

rain, snow, sleet, hail

each level in the transfer of energy through an ecosystem

an organism that can make its own food

an interaction between species in which one species (the predator) eats the other (the prey)

a group of individuals of one species in an area

a relationship between two organisms in which one benefits or lives off the other

a continuous series of natural processes by which nitrogen passes successively from air to soil to organisms and back to air or soil water

the order in which matter and energy in the form of food is transferred from one organism to another

A non-living feature of an ecosystem (rock, water, sun, etc.)

A living feature of an ecosystem (plants, animals, leaves, etc.)

an association between two organisms in which one benefits and the other derives neither benefit nor harm.

organisms that break down waste and the remains of other organisms to return the raw materials back to the ecosystem

an organism that obtains energy from feeding on another organism

an interaction between organisms or species for resources - food, shelter, etc.

the chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life

a group of organs working together to convert food into energy and basic nutrients to feed the entire body

the body system that circulates blood through the body, consisting of the heart, blood vessels, and blood

the most specific classification of living things

an explanation that ties together many hypothesis and observations.

the geologic age of a fossil organism, rock, or geologic feature or event defined relative to other organisms, rocks, or features or events rather than in terms of years

the two sub-layers of the earth's crust (lithosphere) that move, float, and sometimes fracture and whose interaction causes continental drift, earthquakes, volcanoes, mountains, and oceanic trenches

the true age of a rock or fossil, tells scientists the number of years ago a rock layer formed

a theory set forth in 1912 by Alfred Wegener, a geophysicist and meteorologist, that explained how continents shift position on Earth's surface and why look-alike animal and plant fossils, and similar rock formations, are found on different continents

a subatomic particle with no charge (neutral) found in the nucleus of the atom.

pure substances that are composed of two or more types of elements that are chemically combined

The factor (variable) in an experiment that you observe or measure during an experiment.

All the factors in an experiment that do NOT change.

Which of the following describes a pattern or an event in nature that is always true?

Logical explanation of an observation that is drawn from prior knowledge or experience.

The investigation and exploration of natural events and of the new information that results from those investigations.

Factor being tested in an experiment that is changed by the investigator