Question of the Day Period 6

9-8-11 Where is the eyewash station located?

9-9-11If you are supposed to smell something in class, what is the way you do

that?

9-12-11 Why shouldn't you eat in the lab?

9-13-11 Why did certain items "stick" with you compared to other items?

9-14-11 What did you think was in the Mystery Box?

9-15-11 What was one new thing you learned from the field trip?

9-20-11 How do humans affect the environment?

9-21-11 Was the Onceler a bad person? Explain.

9-22-11 Why is it important to take care of the environment?

9-23-11 Do you recycle? Why or why not?

9-26-11 How many Earth's was Ecological Footprint?

9-27-11 Were most of your footprints lower or higher than the country's average? Why do you think that is?

9-28-11 How do you think your footprint might change if you choose another country?

9-29-11 How do you rank data for a box-and whisker plot?

9-30-11 Describe your environment.

10-3-11 Describe your ecosystem.

10-4-11 What are some non-living things in your environment?

10-5-11 What do you know about clouds?

10-6-11 What do you know about acids, bases, and pH?

10-10-11 If the neutral litmus paper turned blue, what kind of substance was it?

10-11-11 Describe how your plants changed from Thursday to today.

10-12 What temperature of water do you think would have the most oxygen: 100 C, 25 c, 10 C? Explain.

10-13-11 What was one result from your water testing?

10-14-11 If I showed you a pH or neutral litmus paper, could you tell me the result? Explain.

10-17-11 What kinds of living things might we find from our soil samples?

10-18-11 What is density?

10-19-11 Which soil particles will be towards the top: light or heavy?

10-20-11 What is organic material?

10-21-11 From your worksheet, what's one thing a good scientist can do?

10-24-11 What is a barometer?

10-25-11 How is a claim different than evidence?

10-26-11 What is a food chain?

10-27-11 How do many food chains start and how do they often end?

10-31-11 How is a food chain different than a food web?

11-1-11 What sorts of organisms do you expect to find in your owl pellet?

11-2-11 What do you still need help for on food chains?

11-3-11 Yay! Quiz Day! :)

11-8-11 What's one new thing you learned about Veterans Day?

11-15-11 What level of the ecosystem would bears, squirrels, and wildflowers be? (Hint: population, community, ecosystem)

11-16-11 Which of these words best describes the above: ecosystem, individual, community?

11-17-11 What label should go on our graph?

11-21-11 What part of the population graph was difficult for you?

11-28-11 What did you do on your break?

11-29-11 What organism did you invent?

11-30-11 How far are you on your rough draft?

12-1-11 Have you used at least the 4 required vocab? Have you used them correctly?

12-5-11 What air?

12-6-11 What are the steps of the water cycle?

12-7-11 Predict whether air takes up space. Explain.

12-8-11 T/F all the layers of the atmosphere are same size. Explain.

12-9-11 What layer is closest to the Earth?

12-12-11 What layer is the shortest?

12-13-11 T/F The temperatures stay the same in the atmosphere?

12-14-11 How do you think clouds affect temperature?

12-15-11 How would you describe the atmosphere?

12-16-11 How were the layers of the atmosphere formed?

12-19-11 What is everything made up of?

12-20-11 What was the mass of your paper?

12-21-11 How do you find an average or mean?

1-4-12 What did you do over break?

1-6-12 T/F In the atmosphere, temps. go from up, down, up down.

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1-10-12 Which layer does weather occur in?

1-11-12 Describe how a plunger works similar to the bag in the jar.

1-13-12 What is evaporation?

1-17-12 Out of 100 mL how much do you think is left in the "Tortoise"?

1-19-12 What part of cloud observations do you think you need extra practice on?

1-24-12 Describe how you think your experiment will work.

1-25-12 Estimate which jar has 100 marbles.

1-26-12 Thinking to the demo, what ingredients are necessary for clouds to form?

1-30-12 What layer would fog be formed in: low, mid, or high?

1-31-12 How do you properly use the surface thermometer?

2-1-12 What patterns of temp. did you notice?

2-2-12 What are the differences you noticed about each of the temperatures you worked with?

2-7-12 New prediction: How do you think your evaporation experiment will work?

2-8-12 What do you think the pattern was?

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2-21-12 T/F Cold and warm air are needed for condensation. Explain.

2-27-12 What city are thinking about adopting?

2-28-12 How do you think the weather in Postville will compare to your adopted city?

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3-13-12 What do you know about earthquakes?

3-14-12 What do you know about volcanoes?

3-19-12 What are fossils?

3-20-12 What is a paleontologist?

3-21-12 How does a paleontologist find a fossil?

3-22-12 How did you go about matching the tooth to the right shark?

3-26-12 What do you know about how Earth has changed over time?

3-27-12 T/F It took the Earth long periods of time to form things.

3-28-12 What do you know about how layers of rocks are aged?

3-29-12 What do you know about the layers of the Earth?

3-30-12 What do you know about types of faults?

4-2-12 Why do you think S. America & Africa look like they fit together?

4-3-12 What are your ideas about the mystery fossil?

4-4-12 What do you know about carbon-dating?

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4-12-12 T/F a footprint could be a trace fossil?

4-13-12 What did the law of superposition say?

4-16-12 How can you compare the ages of two rocks?

4-17-12 You saw a rock layer with a fault in it. Which is older?

4-18-12 T/F If a fossil only occurs once in different rock layers, it would be a good index fossil.

4-19-12 How did we figure out which picture went first?

4-23-12 What is erosion, and how does uplifting help cause it?

4-25-12 What do you know about half-life?

4-26-12 Now after the investigation, what are your ideas about half-life?