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Teaching Children Science
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Sound waves consist of compression and rarefactions
Characteristics of light rays
The sun
Nature or behavior of sound
Meteorites
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)
What are good conductors?
Ocean trenches
Nature or behavior of sound
Personal and Social implications of Earth/Space sciences
3. Where many fossils are found
Personal and Social implications of Earth/Space sciences
Sedimentary Rocks
Event in physical science that occurs the most recently
Sediments
4. Aluminum - gold - copper
Skin
Red blood cells
Venus
What are good conductors?
5. Galileo demonstrated that objects with different masses fail with the same acceleration
Ocean trenches
Continential Drift
Event in the development of the physical sciences most distant past is...
Personal and Social implications of Earth/Space sciences
6. The excretory organs responsible for excreting urea
Nature or behavior of sound
Skin
Plasma
Characteristics of animals
7. AKA - Polaris
What are good conductors?
Concave lens characteristics
North Star
Earth's rotation
8. Rocks that strike the Earth's surface from space
Meteorites
Sedimentary Rock can be turned into metamorphic rock when
Core
Ocean trenches
9. Given names from mythology -groups of stars forming specific patterns -given names to reflect resemblance to familiar objects
Event in the development of the physical sciences most distant past is...
Constellations
Continential Drift
Venus
10. Phylum - class - order - family genus - species
Kingdoms
Fusion production
Ocean trenches
Static electricity and what go hand in hand
11. 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.
Skeletal-Muscular system
Venus
Fusion production
Static electricity and what go hand in hand
12. Vessels that carry blood from the ventricles to various parts of the body
arteries
North Star
Event in the development of the physical sciences most distant past is...
Plasma
13. Rain in the water cycle process
Meteorology
Precipitation
Ice caps and glaciers
Which two planets do not have any moons
14. The female reproductive organ
15. 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)
Fossil examples
Red blood cells
Precipitation
Opaque materials
16. Rocked formed from the cooling lava of volcanic eruptions
Anthrax may be introduced into the body by
The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE)
Sputnik I
Igneous rocks
17. 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
Good bulletin board
Static electricity and what go hand in hand
Anthrax may be introduced into the body by
A parallel circuit
18. Slopes gently
All living things...
Dew point
Good bulletin board
Ocean floor
19. The inclined plane is the basis for the screw and the wedge
the Milky Way
Human circulatory system
Machines
Constellations
20. Use energy - get rid of waste - reproduce - respond to stimuli - maintain homeostatis - adapt to their environment and evolve as a species
All living things...
Voluntary muscle
Cold wave
Barometer
21. Provides constant feedback about accuracy and efficiency of the tool that was designed - -presents readily interpretable data - -addresses a clearly identified problem
The design of physical science technology
Sedimentary Rocks
Metamorphic
The Hubble Space Telescope
22. Bones - shells - teeth
Fossil examples
Ocean floor
Sediments
Sputnik I
23. Bread - cereal - rice and pasta
Sedimentary Rock can be turned into metamorphic rock when
Which food group should you eat the most servings daily
Evaporation
Human circulatory system
24. Low clouds - middle clouds - high clouds - Cumulonimbus
Dew point
Meteorites
Four types of clouds
Human Respiratory System
25. Region around all magnets
Dew point
Magnetic field
Weathering
Ocean floor
26. Layer of the Earth that contains a mass of molten metal
Ocean floor
Core
Sedimentary Rocks
Sputnik I
27. The most recent era of geologic time
Ocean floor
Netwon's first law of motion
Cenozoic
All living things...
28. Movement of the continents away from the ridges on the ocean floor
Why is an airplane able to rise in the air?
Meteorology
Evaporation
Continential Drift
29. Temperature in which air becomes saturated
Which two planets do not have any moons
Dew point
A parallel circuit
The sun
30. There is a flow of electrons through the circuit
Ocean trenches
Pitch
Statement about a simple circuit containing a lit bulb
Precipitation
31. Inhalation and direct contact with an open wound
Earthquakes
Anthrax may be introduced into the body by
Earth's rotation
Statement about a simple circuit containing a lit bulb
32. Monera; Protista; Fungi; Plantae; Animalia
5-Kingdom classification for life on Earth
Clouds form
Evaporation
Human Respiratory System
33. Physical change
Which food group should you eat the most servings daily
Characteristics of animals
Magnetic field
Liquid water changing to solid water is an example of
34. It converts some electrical energy to light energy
The design of physical science technology
Gulf stream
A small - lit bulb in a simple series circuit (correct statement)
Pangaea
35. Closest planet to the sun when compared to: saturn - moon and Mars
Netwon's first law of motion
Earth
Opaque materials
Four types of clouds
36. The book and the moon are repelling
37. Is described as a satallite
The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE)
A small - lit bulb in a simple series circuit (correct statement)
Skin
Meteorites
38. The first man-made satellite that was lauched by the Russians in 1957
Plasma
Meteorites
Sputnik I
Meteorology
39. Category in which rocks are classified
Nature or behavior of sound
Cold wave
Cause of changes in the Earth's surface
Metamorphic
40. Depends on the number of complete vibrations that the vibrating object makes in one second
Continential Drift
Pitch
Liquid water changing to solid water is an example of
Fossil examples
41. Are closely related to hazards - risks - and benefits
Machines
Personal and Social implications of Earth/Space sciences
Earthquakes
Four types of clouds
42. Weathering - erosion - and continental drift
43. It is changed by heat and pressure
Sedimentary Rock can be turned into metamorphic rock when
All living things...
Characteristics of animals
Gulf stream
44. Is in orbit around the Earth
Ocean trenches
The Hubble Space Telescope
atoms
Sedimentary Rocks
45. Is a laboratory in orbit around rhe Earth
Which two planets do not have any moons
Pangaea
International Space Station
Skin
46. When air in the atmosphere rises and cools... The water vapor in the air condenses into droplets
Clouds form
Skeletal-Muscular system
atoms
Human circulatory system
47. Are materials that light cannot pass through
Gulf stream
Which two planets do not have any moons
Clouds form
Opaque materials
48. Most organs are internal - - can respond quickly to environmental changes; can move freely
Characteristics of animals
Netwon's first law of motion
Dew point
Nature or behavior of sound
49. Large land mass that broke apart
Ice caps and glaciers
Pangaea
Cenozoic
Good bulletin board
50. The hardest and softest minerals according to Mohs' Hardness Scale
Netwon's first law of motion
atoms
Talc and Diamond
Which food group should you eat the most servings daily