Life Science
Student Investigations
What is a seed?
How do light, air, water, and temperature affect germination?
What is soil?
What are the parts of a plant? Describe the function of each part in great detail?
How is gravity and sunlight related to the growth of a plant?
How do animals differ from plants?
What are food chains?
What are the major biomes of the world?
Explain the process of photosynthesis?
How is the life cycle of a butterfly different from the life cycle of a frog?
How do animals and plants adapt to their environment? Give many examples?
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Earth Science Questions
1. What are the four "layers" of the earth?
2. What is the "inside" of the earth like?
3. What minerals? List some common minerals?
4. How can one identify a mineral? List all the tests.
5. What factors affect weathering?
6. What are fossils and how are they formed?
7. What causes ocean currents, waves, and tides?
8. How does a solar and lunar eclipse occur?
9. Describe our solar system?
10. What is erosion?
11. Where does the sun rise and set?