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Why are experiments important for science?

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What is the difference between kinetic and potential energy?
Give one example of each.

4. 8-20-15 Bell Ringer Where does energy come from?
How did you get energy today?

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Name at least three forms of energy you see in the picture. Tell how you know it’s that form of energy.

6. 8-25-15 Bell Ringer Define the Law of Conservation
Explain what happens when you turn on an electric stove

7. 8-26-15 Bell Ringer What is temperature?
What are the three temperature scales?

8. 8-27-15 Bell Ringer What are the tree forms of thermal energy?
List an example of each type of thermal energy

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Describe a scenario of when a form of potential energy transforms into kinetic energy (use vocabulary words!)

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Draw a food web using the following items (more may be included:
Sunlight An omnivore
A plant A herbivore
A fungus A carnivore
Be prepared to discuss the energy transfer in your web.

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List the planets in order and tell one fact you know about each.

12. 9-2-15 Bell Ringer Solar System question:
What is the difference between a revolution and a rotation? Draw a diagram to explain.

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Why do the tectonic plates shift? What is the evidence that they are moving?

14. 9-4-15 Bell Ringer Fill in this chart with the correct energy forms:
Potential Energy
Kinetic Energy C T G R
S. M. E N S

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List 3 different items that you use daily and where the resources came from to create those items.

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What is an eclipse? How do they occur?

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List 3 different animals that live in the ocean and how they contribute to the ecosystem.

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List 3 examples of Kinetic energy and 3 examples of Potential energy.

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Compare and Contrast Kinetic and Potential Energy.

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List the four Kinetic Energies and give an example of each. (TRES)

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List the four Potential Energies and give an example of each. (C.N.G.SM.)

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List two things you learned from the energy presentations yesterday. (Must be from someone else’s presentation)

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No Bell Ringer today – Look through your notebook and be sure it is ready to be turned in. Then, place it in the crate with your class period on it. 

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What is the life cycle of a frog? Draw a small diagram in your notebook.

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List 5 differences between mammals and birds.

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Define the term “ecosystem.”

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List 5 differences between reptiles and mammals.

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What are the northern and southern hemispheres? What is the difference between them?

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What are the prime meridian and the equator? What is the difference between them?

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Name all the oceans. (Do your best with the spelling)

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Name all the continents. (Do your best with the spelling.)

32. 10-5-15 Bell Ringer You can see me in the dark.
I wear a warning to “stay away”.
The great horned owl is my only predator.
I raid turtle nests to feast on eggs.
My scent is unforgettable.
Do you know who I am?

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Draw a small diagram of the water cycle and label each of the different steps.

34. 10-7-15 Bell Ringer Fifty teeth often make me look like I’m snarling.
My ears and tail are sometimes frost-bitten.
I can use my tail to hold on to a branch or carry leaves for my nest.
I have an opposable thumb.
I am North America’s only marsupial.
Do you know who I am?

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What is something that you learned from the melting ice lab that has helped you create a better home for your penguin?

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Try to identify what the “big picture” is for each of these close ups!!

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How are math, reading and history all important to the study of science? (Write at least a sentence for each)

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What is something that you learned from Learning Blade in the Computer lab?

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List two ways that you have seen heat transfer this week in your life.

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What is the difference between: herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, and scavenger?

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Why are fossils important? What role do they play in scientific history?

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What is erosion?

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Define thermal energy transfer.

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List the 3 heat transfer forms and an example of each.

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What is the greenhouse effect?

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What is Pangea?

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What is the longest river in the United States?

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Describe a hurricane.

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Describe a tornado.

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What is the difference between a mechanical wave and an electromagnetic wave?

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What is the difference between a transvers and a compressional wave?

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What is the difference between frequency and amplitude?

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What is a wavelength? How can you find it in a compressional wave? How can you find it in a transverse wave?

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List 5 ways you have encountered sound waves today.

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Why do sound waves travel faster through solids than they do gasses?

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What is white light?

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What is one thing that you learned from the “Jigsaw” activity on Wednesday?

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Why is it important that we understand how light and sound waves travel?

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List 3 examples of waves that you have encountered in the past week.

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What is the electromagnetic spectrum?

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Identify one of the different wavelengths on the Electromagnetic Spectrum and tell one fact about it.

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Write a question you think may be on the wave test tomorrow.

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What is the difference between digital and analog signals?

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