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Name 2 ways to communicate data

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Graphs, tables

Name 2 different ways you could communicate what a particular plant looks like if you found it in the woods.


Pictures, drawings

Give one advantage and one disadvantage of using a model


Advantage- you get to see objects that are too small to see (ex: atom), you get to see inside objects that are not possible to see otherwise (ex: volcano)

Disadvantage- Most models do not show temperature. Models usually do not have the same texture as a real object.

When evaluating scientific explanations, or phenomena, you should always look for ________ and ___________.


Strengths, weaknesses

What method would you use to find out what a student is testing in an experiment? What are the two vocabulary words associated with this?


A T-chart showing controls and variables

What do the arrows in a food web represent?


The flow of energy

Give one example of an inherited trait and one example of a learned behavior


Inherited Trait: eye color, hair color, skin color, height, etc.

Learned Behavior: reading, playing an instrument, learning a sport, etc.

When animals face an environmental change, they must __________ or they will die.


adapt

In order for a species to survive, animals must pass on their genetic ________ to their _________.


Traits

offspring

If a rabbit is both a consumer and prey in its ecosystem, this characteristic would define the rabbit’s ___________.


niche

What is the difference between reflected and refracted light? Give examples of each.


Reflected light is bouncing light. Example: A mirror

Refracted light is bent light. Example: a prism, rainbow, seeing a “bent” object submerged halfway in water.

Name 4 types of energy


Thermal (heat)

Electrical

Light

Chemical

Sound

All solutions are a type of __________.


mixture

True or False-A force must be present to cause change


True

True or False-Parts of mixtures (example: sand and water) go through a chemical change when mixed together.


False- Parts of mixtures do not chemically change. Mixtures can be physically separated into their original components.

__________ is absorbed by plants to be converted into _________ through a process called ___________.


Carbon Dioxide

Sugar

Photosynthesis

What causes the seasons?


The tilt of the Earth

Lumber is a/an __________ resource.


Renewable

Give 2 examples of an inexhaustible resource


Wind

Solar

Name 3 fossil fuels and identify what type of resource they are


Coal

Natural Gas

Petroleum (oil)

Nonrenewable Resources

Name all 8 planets in order from the sun


Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nachos!

List the stages of a beetle going through metamorphosis in order


Egg, Larva, Pupa, Adult

“L” comes before “P” in the alphabet

The oldest rock layer is found ___________.


On the bottom layer

When looking at a tree ring, where is the oldest ring, AND what strategy must you use on the TAKS test if there is a tree ring question?


The oldest ring is in the center

On the TAKS test, label each point on the tree ring “1st”, “2nd”, “3rd”, and so on- starting from the inside out.

Give an example of a producer, primary consumer, and a secondary consumer.


Producer- any plant

Primary Consumer- any animal that eats a plant

Secondary Consumer- any animal that eats another animal

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