Matter | Rocks and Minerals | Changes to Earth and Weather/Climate | Earth, Moon, and Stars | Life Cycles |
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What are liquid, solid, and gas?
These are the three phases of matter.
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What is a metamorphic rock?
A rock that has changed due to heat and pressure is called this.
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What is erosion?
This is the name for when rocks and soil are worn down by water and wind.
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What is 28 days?
This is the length of time it takes the moon to go through all of its phases.
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What is larva?
The growth stage for butterflies is called this.
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What is evaporation?
This is the name for when a liquid becomes a gas.
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What is an igneous rock?
A rock that forms when lava cools is called this.
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What is deposition?
This is the name for when eroded material ends up some place else, such as further down a river bed.
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What is 24 hours or one day?
The earth rotates on it's axis once every this length of time.
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What is pupa?
The stage in which a caterpillar begins its transformation into a butterfly is called this.
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What is condensation?
This is the name for when a gas becomes a liquid.
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What is a sedimentary rock?
A rock that is formed when layers of sand are pressed together is called this.
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What is slow?
Erosion is a form of this type of change (rapid or slow).
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What is 365 days or one year?
The earth revolves around the sun once every this length of time.
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What is adult.
An organism can only reproduce at this stage of it's life cycle.
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What is a solid?
When particles in an object are packed closely together, it is in this phase.
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What is a sedimentary rock?
Fossils are typically found in the layers of this kind of rock.
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What is weather?
This is a word used when discussing the current conditions outside right NOW.
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What is the east and the west?
The sun rises from this direction and sets from this direction.
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What is live birth or egg?
Organisms begin their life cycles in either of these two ways.
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What is a gas?
In this phase of matter, the particles expand to fill a whole container.
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What are hardness, color, streak, cleavage.
These are two of the tests used to identify minerals.
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What is climate?
This is a word used when discussing what the weather is USUALLY like, based on many years of data.
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What are shadows?
The angle of the sun causes these to be longer or shorter.
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What are producers, consumers, and decomposers.
Organisms fall into one of these three categories.
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