Out of this World | Thinking like a scientist | What's the Matter? | I Like to Move It Move It | This and That |
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What is a planet
A large round body that revolves around a star
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What is volume
The amount of space something takes up.
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What are physical properties
Characteristics used to describe matter like color, texture, size and density
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What is a non native species
What do we call an organism that is not from a given place?
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What is aluminum (metal)
The material that melted ice more quickly than plastic in our lab at the beginning of the year.
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What is a comet
A chunk of frozen gases, rock, ice, and dust orbiting the sun.
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What is a balance
A tool used to measure the amount of matter in an object, which is the object's mass.
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What is density
The mass of an object divided by the volume of an object
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What is an invasive species
What do we call an organism that is not native to a specific location and has a tendency to spread, which is believed to cause damage to the environment.
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What is a solvent
The thing that does the dissoving
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What is a meteorite
Pieces of larger space rocks that survive their passage through the earth's atmosphere that reach Earth's surface.
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What is a model
Scientists use these when they can not experiment on the real thing. They help scientist investigate things that are too big, expensive or unpredictable
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What is changes its state.
When enough energy is taken in or released matter can changes.
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What is igneous rock
A type of rock that cools from magma or lava
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What is a Conductor
A material that readily allows electric charges to pass through it and therefore carries electricity well.
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What are planets, comets, moons, a star, asteroids
5 objects found in the solar system
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What is an experiment
An investigation in which all of the conditions are controlled to test a hypothesis.
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What is a gas
Can be compressed when put under pressure
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What is gravity
The force of attraction between objects
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What is the Sun
The source of most of the Earth's energy.
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What is fusion
This is the type of nuclear reaction that takes place in stars
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What is a variable
Any condition that can be changed in an experiment.
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What is a physical change
A change in which the form or shape
of a substance changes but the chemical makeup of the substance remains the same. |
What is a circuit
A path along which electric charges can flow.
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What is an Atom
The smallest unit into which an element can be divided and still retain all the properties of that element.
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