1. Science
Jeopardy
Fourth Grade
Created by Judy Spears

2. 10 20 30 40 Safety Variables Tools & Instruments Inquiry Observations
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3. Observations that use numbers or measurements and make relative comparisons such as all, more than, less than, few or none.

4. What are quantitative observations ?

5. Observations that are made using only the senses and refer to specific attributes and use pictures, words or diagrams.

6. What are qualitative observations ?

7. An inference made about what will happen in the future based on observations, available information, and prior knowledge. This is NOT a guess.

8. What is a prediction ?

9. An explanation or interpretation of an observation based on prior knowledge but are not final explanations of the observation.

10. What are inferences?

11. A weather instrument used to measure wind speed in miles per hour and should be able to spin freely without obstruction.

12. What is an anemometer ?

13. A tool that reflects light toward a given direction.

14. What is
a mirror?

15. A tool that breaks white light into the colors of the spectrum.

16. What is a prism ?

17. A tool used to determine cardinal directions.

18. What is a compass?

19. Factors that can affect the results of an experiment.

20. What are variables ?

21. The one factor that is changed or tested during the investigation.

22. What is the manipulated variable ?

23. The response to the changing of the manipulated variable.

24. What is the responding variable ?

25. The manipulated variable is always located on this axis.

26. What is the horizontal x-axis ?

27. True or False: Never put anything in your mouth unless the teacher tells you to do so.

28. What is
true?

29. This equipment should be worn to protect your eyes from dangerous materials.

30. What are
goggles?

31. These should be used keep your clothing clean during experiments.

32. What are
aprons?

33. This should be done before leaving science class.

34. What is clean your area and return materials to their place?

35. 10 20 30 40 50 Life Science Organisms Next round...click here.
4.2.1
Environments
4.2.2
Animal Behavior
4.2.3 & 4.2.5
Inherited or Acquired
4.2.4
Environment Changes
4.2.6 10 20 30 40 50
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36. Organisms can be classified into two groups.

37. What are plants and animals ?

38. Plants that make seeds within flowers and some of those flowers become fruits that contain the seeds.

39. What are flowering plants ?

40. Plants that make seeds within cones or produce spores instead of seeds, such as ferns.

41. What are nonflowering plants ?

42. Animals with backbones such as mammals, amphibians, fish, reptiles and birds.

43. What are vertebrates ?

44. Animals without backbones such as insects, crabs, shrimp and worms.

45. What are invertebrates ?

46. Located in warm areas with thick plant growth, such as ferns, with very tall trees, such as the cypress, and animals adapted to a watery environment.

47. What is a swamp ?

48. These moving bodies of water can be found in warm or cold areas, with many plants along the banks and water plants and animals that use these plants for food and shelter.

49. What are rivers or streams ?

50. Humid, warm areas with lots of plant growth and colorful animals to blend in with the variety of plants that grow in this wet environment.

51. What is a tropical rainforest ?

52. Dry areas with extreme temperatures; very hot days and very cold nights. Organisms have adaptations to conserve moisture and can survive in the extreme temperatures and lack of water.

53. What are deserts?

54. Very cold regions with dark winters and summers that can have 24 hours of daylight. There is little variety of plants and the animals have thick layers of fur or fat.

55. What are polar regions?

56. A response to a change in one’s environment.

57. What is behavior?

58. Any part of an animals body that receives signals from its environment that help keep it from danger and enable them to find food and shelter.

59. What are sensory organs?

60. A behavior of some animals when the weather becomes too cold and food becomes scarce.

61. What is hibernation?

62. A behavior of some animals during the different seasons to find food and comfortable temperatures (most birds do this as well as some mammals).

63. What is migration?

64. True or False:
The eating habits of animals may change depending on the availability of food.

65. What is true?

66. Characteristics that are passed from parents to their offspring.

67. What are inherited characteristics?

68. Characteristics such as type and color of body covering in animals, leaf shape and color in plants are examples.

69. What are physical characteristics?

70. Characteristics such as height and weight in animals, number of leaves or length of branches in plants are examples.

71. What are behavioral characteristics?

72. Roots growing down and stems growing upward is an example of this kind of characteristic.

73. What are behavioral characteristics?

74. A duck being able to swim or a deer being able to walk without being taught is an example of ___ characteristics.

75. What are instinctive behavioral characteristics?

76. Changes in the environment can be harmful or helpful.
True or False:
Changes in the environment can be harmful or helpful.

77. What is true?

78. Pollution is a harmful way this group of organisms change the environment.

79. (But we are working to make our world cleaner and “greener”.)
What are people?
(But we are working to make our world cleaner and “greener”.)

80. The effect of animals eating too many plants from the land can cause this.

81. What is erosion?

82. If people cut down trees to use for various purposes, this is something they can do to keep it from harming the environment.

83. What is replace the cut trees by planting new ones?

84. The effect of beavers building dams which block the flow of water down a river or stream.

85. What is it creates ponds for other plants and animals?

86. Earth’s Axis & Rotation
Earth Science-Solar System
Sun, Moon & Earth
4.3.1, .2 & .8
Sun Affect Earth
4.3.3
Earth’s Axis & Rotation
4.3.4 & 4.3.5
The Moon
4.3.6
Shadows
4.3.7 10 20 30 40 50
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87. Bodies or natural satellites that orbit the Sun
Bodies or natural satellites that orbit the Sun. Some are rocky and some have a surface made of gas.

88. What are planets?

89. The instrument that can gather more light than the eye can see to make faint, faraway objects, such as planets, appear brighter and closer.

90. What is a telescope?

91. The central star in our solar system which all planets revolve around
The central star in our solar system which all planets revolve around. A large ball of glowing gases that is extremely hot.

92. What is the sun?

93. A natural satellite that orbits the Earth
A natural satellite that orbits the Earth. It has a rocky, dusty surface with many craters and no water.

94. What is the moon?

95. The eight planets as they revolve around the sun.

96. What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune?

97. This is a star that produces heat and light deep down inside of it.

98. What is the sun?

99. The sun produces and gives off heat and light that the Earth receives.
True or False:
The sun produces and gives off heat and light that the Earth receives.

100. What is true?

101. Heat from the sun causes this process of the water cycle on Earth’s surface.

102. What is evaporation?

103. These use energy from the sun to make their own food.

104. What are plants?

105. The sun’s energy is stored in these objects that formed from some organisms that died long ago, such as coal, oil or natural gas.

106. What are fossil fuels?

107. The time it takes for the Earth to revolve around the Sun one complete time.

108. What is one year or 365 days?

109. The imaginary straight line that runs through the Earth’s center and the Earth rotates around it.

110. What is the axis?

111. The movement of the Earth as it makes its way around the sun in three hundred sixty-five days.

112. What is one revolution?

113. The effects on Earth that are due to the change in the amount of sunlight cause by the Earth’s tilt on its axis as it revolves around the sun. It effects the temperatures throughout the year.

114. What are seasons?

115. The movement of the Earth on its axis and one is completed every twenty-four hours. As this happens, it changes the length of shadows.

116. What is a rotation?

117. The satellite that reflects light from the sun back to Earth.

118. What is the moon?

119. When the entire half/side of the moon is lit and facing Earth so that we see a full circle.

120. What is a full moon?

121. When half of the moon is lit that is facing earth and the other half is darkened.

122. What is a quarter moon?

123. This is the force between the earth and moon that also makes the surface level of the ocean rise and fall, called tides.

124. What is gravity?

125. When the entire side of the moon facing Earth is darkened.

126. What is a new moon?

127. These are cast on Earth by objects that block the sunlight
These are cast on Earth by objects that block the sunlight. They change length during the day.

128. What are shadows?

129. In the morning, when the sun is low in the sky these are the types of shadows we see.

130. What are long shadows?

131. As the sun rises in the sky, this happens to shadows on Earth.

132. What is they get shorter?

133. At this time there is almost no shadow at all because the sun is directly overhead.

134. What is noon?

135. The changing in the length of shadows throughout the day demonstrates the ____ of the Earth.

136. What is rotation?

137. Earth Science - Weather
Water Cycle
4.4.1
Clouds
4.4.2
Weather Conditions
4.4.3
Severe Weather
4.4.4
Data Collection
4.4.5 & 4.4.6 10 20 30 40 50
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138. The cycle of change in water between the Earth’s surface and the air and back again.

139. What is the water cycle?

140. The process from which liquid water on Earth’s surface changes into a gas as a result of the Sun’s energy.

141. What is evaporation?

142. A process that happens in the air as water vapor cools and turns back into a liquid form as droplets of water. This causes the formation of clouds.

143. What is condensation?

144. Any form of water that falls from clouds as a result of condensation; rain, sleet, snow or hail.

145. What is precipitation?

146. The process of precipitation after it hits the Earth’s surface trying to return to oceans or lakes as this.

147. What is runoff?

148. Formed when water vapor in the air rises, cools and condenses, forming water droplets that stick together.

149. What are clouds?

150. Fluffy, cotton looking clouds, often with flat bottoms, that usually mean fair weather when white. Dark ones usually bring rain.

151. What are cumulus clouds?

152. High, thin wispy clouds made up of ice crystals that usually mean fair weather.

153. What are cirrus clouds?

154. Layers of clouds that are spread out covering a large area and are usually close to the ground.

155. What are stratus clouds?

156. One example of stratus clouds that form on cool mornings, especially near water sources. They are so low to the ground they make it difficult to drive.

157. What is fog?

158. The condition of how hot or cold the air is at a given time.

159. What is temperature?

160. The condition of how fats the wind is blowing.

161. What is wind speed?

162. The condition determined by where the wind is coming from.

163. What is wind direction?

164. The condition of the type of water falling to Earth from the clouds.

165. What is precipitation?

166. True of False:
Weather conditions can be compared to one another in the same season; summer, spring, winter or fall.

167. What is true?

168. A sever storm with lightning thunder heavy rain, strong winds and can produce hail. The heavy rain can cause flooding and the lightning can cause fires.

169. What is a thunderstorm?

170. A small, funnel shaped cloud that comes down from a storm cloud with very high, spinning winds that can tear apart buildings and destroy everything in its path.

171. What is a tornado?

172. A large storm that forms over warm ocean water with strong winds that blow in a circular pattern around the center or eye. Some effects are high winds, storm waves along the coast that erode beaches and heavy rain that causes flooding.

173. What is a hurricane?

174. During this type of storm you need to immediately find a safe place away from windows, or lie flat in a ditch or low area until it passes over. Never stay in a car or mobile home.

175. What is a tornado?

176. During this storm, people living on the coast are advised to board up their windows and move further inland.

177. What is a hurricane?

178. Wind speed is measured with this tool that catches the wind in a cup and makes it spin. You must count how many times it spins in a given period to determine the wind speed.

179. What is an anemometer?

180. This tool determines wind direction by turning toward the direction the wind is coming from.

181. What is a wind or weather vane?

182. This is how we gather information about how much precipitation has fallen.

183. What is a rain gauge?

184. We can determine the temperature using this
We can determine the temperature using this. The scale may be read in degrees Fahrenheit or Celsius.

185. What is a thermometer?

186. True or False:
Weather predictions are based on qualitative and quantitative collected data and are not just guesses.

187. What is true?

188. Magnets & Electro- Magnets
Physical Science - Light and Electricity
Properties of Light
4.5.1 & 4.5.2
How Light Travels
4.5.3 & 4.5.4
Electricity
4.5.5 & 4.5.8
Circuits
4.5.6 & 4.5.7
Magnets & Electro- Magnets
4.5.9 10 20 30 40 50
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189. This is made up of all colors of light mixed together
This is made up of all colors of light mixed together. You can use a prism to separate it.

190. What is white light?

191. The intensity of light that is related to the amount of light that is seen. The closer you are to the source the greater the intensity.

192. What is brightness?

193. In order for an object to be visible, it must give this off or reflect it from another source.

194. What is light?

195. The ability to make something move, happen or change
The ability to make something move, happen or change. Light is one source of it.

196. What is energy?

197. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet are the colors of this.

198. What is the spectrum?

199. When light bounces back from the surface of an object that does not produce its own light.

200. What is reflection?

201. When light travels through an object that bends the light and changes its direction. This happens when light passes through a prism or why a straw looks broken when seen through a glass of water.

202. What is refraction?

203. What happens to light when it strikes an object and does not pass through or is reflected. It is why we see different colors. The color we see is not ___.

204. What is absorbed?

205. A material that allows light to pass through it because it is not reflected or absorbed. Objects can be seen clearly through this material.

206. What is transparent?

207. A material that scatters or absorbs some light that strikes it
A material that scatters or absorbs some light that strikes it. Objects appear blurry when seen through this type of material.

208. What is translucent?

209. Electric energy can be changed into this type of energy with light bulbs in lamps and computer monitors.

210. What is light energy?

211. Electrical energy can be changed into this form of energy in stoves, toasters and ovens.

212. What is heat energy?

213. Electrical energy can be changed into this type of energy through radios and televisions.

214. What is sound energy?

215. These allow electric current to flow through them
These allow electric current to flow through them. It allows a bulb to stay lit when this type of object is added to the electric circuit. Metals are good examples.

216. What are conductors?

217. These type of materials do not allow electric currents to run through them. A bulb will not stay lit when this material is used to complete the circuit. Plastic and wood are two examples.

218. What are insulators?

219. There are several components needed to complete a circuit
There are several components needed to complete a circuit. This conducts the electric current or flow in one.

220. What is the wire?

221. This is the part of a circuit that allows the current to flow when closed and stops the current when open.

222. What is the switch?

223. This is the object in the circuit that changes the electrical energy into light energy.

224. What is the light bulb?

225. Click here for a diagram.
In this type of circuit, the electric current goes through each device in one sequential, complete path from the source of the current.
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226. What type of circuit is this?
battery
switch
What type of circuit is this?

227. What is a series circuit?

228. Click here for a diagram.
In this type of circuit, the current branches into several loops and has more than one path through which the electric current flows.
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229. What type of circuit is this?
battery
What type of circuit is this?

230. What is a parallel circuit?

231. The area on the ends of magnets or on the top and bottom, where the pull or attraction is the strongest.

232. What are their poles?

233. A type of magnet that will attract only when an electric current passes through an insulated wire that is wrapped around an iron core.

234. What is an electromagnet?

235. Two magnets will do this when their opposite poles are close together.

236. What is attract?

237. When the like poles of two magnets are close together this is what they do.

238. What is repel?

239. True or False:
The size of the magnetic attraction of a magnet can be measured by counting the number of objects that a magnet can pick up.

240. What is true?

241. Congratulations!