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Teaching Children Science
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The female reproductive organ
2. An explanation why Earth is not becoming larger as new land is created at the ocean ridges (the Earth's crust is being pushed downward)
Ocean trenches
Ice caps and glaciers
Machines
Concave lens characteristics
3. Bones - shells - teeth
Ice caps and glaciers
Liquid water changing to solid water is an example of
Fossil examples
Clouds form
4. The planet in which spins on its side
Meteorites
Which food group should you eat the most servings daily
Uranus
Measurement units of heat
5. Sunlight reaching humans on earth - light from stars in the universe - the operation of hydrogen bombs
Bacteria falls under which kingdom
Fusion production
Weathering
Four types of clouds
6. There is a flow of electrons through the circuit
Why is an airplane able to rise in the air?
Statement about a simple circuit containing a lit bulb
Earth's rotation
Core
7. Atoms
Anthrax may be introduced into the body by
Precipitation
Static electricity and what go hand in hand
Cold wave
8. Category in which rocks are classified
Pangaea
Liquid water changing to solid water is an example of
Metamorphic
Ice caps and glaciers
9. Bread - cereal - rice and pasta
Plasma
Sputnik I
Which food group should you eat the most servings daily
Description of a flower's pistil
10. Murray- Gell Mann won a Nobel Prize for his work on classifying elementary particles
Event in physical science that occurs the most recently
Barometer
Uranus
Measurement units of heat
11. Rocks that strike the Earth's surface from space
What are good conductors?
Pangaea
Human circulatory system
Meteorites
12. Jellyfish; mollusks; hydra
Dew point
Earthquakes
Invertebrates
Three types of muscles in the human body
13. Causes the sun to rise and set each day
14. Given names from mythology -groups of stars forming specific patterns -given names to reflect resemblance to familiar objects
Constellations
Dew point
Nature or behavior of sound
Earthquakes
15. Created by bits of soil - sand - gravel and rocks being carried through rivers and streams
Cause of changes in the Earth's surface
Sediments
Fusion production
Talc and Diamond
16. A time period in which the temperature falls far below normal
Cause of changes in the Earth's surface
Clouds form
Cold wave
Carbon dioxide
17. Natural process through which rocks are broken into smaller pieces
Core
A parallel circuit
Clouds form
Weathering
18. AKA - Polaris
North Star
Asteroids
Nature or behavior of sound
8-20 Billion years ago
19. When air in the atmosphere rises and cools... The water vapor in the air condenses into droplets
A parallel circuit
Clouds form
Liquid water changing to solid water is an example of
Netwon's first law of motion
20. The shape of the wings and the manipulation of ailerons both contribute to lift
Why is an airplane able to rise in the air?
Bacteria falls under which kingdom
Talc and Diamond
Three types of muscles in the human body
21. The first man-made satellite that was lauched by the Russians in 1957
Sputnik I
Ice caps and glaciers
Bacteria falls under which kingdom
Clouds form
22. Kilocalorie - calorie - and British Thermal Unit (BTU)
Earth
Measurement units of heat
The Hubble Space Telescope
Asteroids
23. Where most of the fresh water on earth is found
Human circulatory system
Which two planets do not have any moons
Uranus
Ice caps and glaciers
24. Are one component of blood - they contain hemoglobin - ( the iron-rich substance that receives oxygen from the lungs and carries it to the tissue cells)
A parallel circuit
Red blood cells
Three types of muscles in the human body
Netwon's first law of motion
25. Large land mass that broke apart
What are good conductors?
Good bulletin board
Pangaea
5-Kingdom classification for life on Earth
26. Part of human blood that consists of 90% water
Carbon dioxide
Plasma
arteries
Bacteria falls under which kingdom
27. Bones and muscles that work together to give your body its form and structure. The bones provides support - protection for vital organs - storage area for minerals and surfaces to which muscles are really alive.
Event in the development of the physical sciences most distant past is...
Ocean trenches
Pitch
Skeletal-Muscular system
28. It converts some electrical energy to light energy
What are good conductors?
A small - lit bulb in a simple series circuit (correct statement)
Igneous rocks
Earth
29. Heat - carbon dioxide - water
Sedimentary Rocks
Skin
Things given off during energy production
Nature or behavior of sound
30. The hardest and softest minerals according to Mohs' Hardness Scale
Clouds form
Talc and Diamond
Meteorites
A small - lit bulb in a simple series circuit (correct statement)
31. The name of our galaxy
Core
the Milky Way
Characteristics of light rays
Event in physical science that occurs the most recently
32. Vessels that carry blood from the ventricles to various parts of the body
What are good conductors?
Sputnik I
Metamorphic
arteries
33. Chemical reactions take place and requires oxygen
Meteorites
Human Respiratory System
Static electricity and what go hand in hand
Gulf stream
34. Layer of the Earth that contains a mass of molten metal
Concave lens characteristics
Core
Cold wave
Measurement units of heat
35. Skeletal muscle
Concave lens characteristics
The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE)
Voluntary muscle
Precipitation
36. Region around all magnets
What are good conductors?
Uranus
Asteroids
Magnetic field
37. When liquid water leaves the surface of a lake to go up into the air as vapor
Nature or behavior of sound
Evaporation
Pangaea
Weathering
38. Phylum - class - order - family genus - species
Metamorphic
Description of a flower's pistil
Red blood cells
Kingdoms
39. Is in orbit around the Earth
Opaque materials
The Hubble Space Telescope
Ice caps and glaciers
Netwon's first law of motion
40. Is described as a satallite
The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE)
Description of a flower's pistil
Core
The design of physical science technology
41. The book and the moon are repelling
42. Closest planet to the sun when compared to: saturn - moon and Mars
Nature or behavior of sound
Clouds form
Pitch
Earth
43. When one light bulb in a circuit burns out and the other remains it. - this type of circuit is which that current is divided among many paths
A parallel circuit
Cenozoic
Earthquakes
Sputnik I
44. Changes in velocity
Acceleration
North Star
Bacteria falls under which kingdom
Continential Drift
45. Powerful current carrying warm waters from the equator northward and then eastward toward England
Igneous rocks
Gulf stream
Evaporation
Four types of clouds
46. Monera; Protista; Fungi; Plantae; Animalia
5-Kingdom classification for life on Earth
Earth's rotation
Cold wave
Skin
47. Can produce only virtual images that are smaller than the real objects - it is thicker at its edges than at its center - and it causes light rays to bend towards its edges
Concave lens characteristics
Characteristics of animals
The design of physical science technology
The sun
48. Mercury and Venus
Meteorology
Which two planets do not have any moons
atoms
Which food group should you eat the most servings daily
49. The most recent era of geologic time
Constellations
The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE)
Cenozoic
Precipitation
50. Sound waves consist of compression and rarefactions
Carbon dioxide
Venus
Nature or behavior of sound
Cenozoic