Space Senses Water Chemistry Heat and Energy Life
100
What is the moon?
This celestial body is our next goal to make a permanent, manned moon base
100
What is smell?
This sense is the ability to detect and identify chemicals in the air - butterflies do it with their antennae
100
What are bicycles?
This item was fished out of the river (two of them!) when we visited Sawyers Creek
100
What is a conductor?
This word describes materials like metal which transfer heat very easily
100
What is growth?
This "G" from the phrase MRS GREN is an example of something all living things have just got to do
200
What is Matariki?
This star cluster, known in the Northern hemisphere as the Pleiades, marks the New Year in the Maori calendar
200
What is touch?
This sense is linked with the word "tactile", in the same way the sense of sight links with the word "visual"
200
What is a compound?
This word describes a molecule made of more than one kind of atom joined together, like water or carbon dioxide
200
What is "up"?
This direction is where warmer gases and liquids will flow, creating a "convection current"
200
What is a Kingdom?
This classification group, bigger than Order, divides all living things into 5 categories
300
What is an orbit?
This path describes the movement of a smaller object around a larger object
300
What is a cow?
This domestic animal gave us the eyeballs we dissected, way back in Term 1
300
What is liquid?
This state of matter is when the atoms are too close together to compress further, but they have enough energy to move and slide past each other
300
What is radiation?
This method of heat transfer is the only one that can happen in a vacuum/without direct contact
300
What is a Starfish?
This marine creature is a stellar example of an animal from the "Echnioderm" phylum
400
What is Venus?
This rocky planet will give you a birthday every day, because the year takes 225 Earth days, and a single rotation is 243 Earth days long
400
What is Red-Green colorblindness?
This eye condition is more common in males than females, and is detected using the "Ishihara test"
400
What is turbidity?
This word describes how murky water is, with high levels being a problem for stream health
400
What is Kelvin?
This temperature system tells you how much energy the particles have - and reaching 0 in it is technically impossible
400
What is a nostril?
This structural adaptation at the end of a kiwi's nose gives it an advantage when trying to find bugs in leaf litter
500
Who are Artemis and Apollo?
This pair of twin deities from Greek Mythology give their names to the NASA moon missions
500
What is a convex lens?
This type of lens will bend incoming light into a single point, making it useful for magnifying glasses, microscopes, and vision correction
500
What is a solute?
This word describes the substance that dissolves into your solution, e.g. the sugar in your tea
500
What is air?
This "secret ingredient" in Pink Batts is a very poor conductor - it's also in puffer jackets and scrunched-up newspaper
500
What is dog?
This canid companion has the scientific name Canis Lupus Familiaris






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