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Student Exploration: Observing Weather Prior Knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo.) 1. If you were describing the weather to someone, what kinds of things would you talk about? The temperature, what season it is, humidity, & precipitation 2. What instruments can you use to gather information about weather? Thermometer, weather radar, & barometer. Gizmo Warm-up Earth is surrounded by a blanket of air called the atmosphere. The weather is the state of the atmosphere at a ...

Student Exploration: DNA Profiling Vocabulary: DNA polymerase, DNA profiling, gel electrophoresis, gene, mutation, non-coding region, polymerase chain reaction, primer, short tandem repeat Prior Knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo.) In 1985, Darryl Hunt was convicted of murder. While Hunt was in jail, a new method for analyzing DNA evidence was invented. The DNA evidence on the victim did not match Hunt’s DNA but did match that of another prisoner. After 19 years s...

Vocabulary: adaptation, amino acid, amnion, artiodactyla, bipedal, clade, cladistics, cladogram, convergent evolution, evolution, flower, mammary glands, molecular, morphological, multicellular, parsimony, sagittal crest, phloem, selenodont teeth, SNP, xylem Prior Knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo.) 1. Look at the images below. Which two organisms do you think are most closely related? I think that the Deer and the Turtle are more closely related. Worm Deer Turtle 2. Wh...

Student Exploration: Boyle’s Law and Charles’s Law Vocabulary: absolute zero, Boyle’s law, Charles’s law, Gay-Lussac’s law, Kelvin scale, pressure Prior Knowledge Question (Do this BEFORE using the Gizmo.) A small helium tank measures about two feet (60 cm) high. Yet it can fill over 50 balloons! How can such a small tank contain enough helium to fill so many balloons? The small container can hold all that helium in the container because the gas in the tank is under a lot of pres...

Student Exploration: Comparing Climates (Metric) [Note to teachers and students: This lesson was designed as a follow-up to the Observing Weather (Metric) lesson. We recommend doing that activity before trying this one.] Vocabulary: adaptation, climate, equator, hot desert climate, humidity, latitude, precipitation, temperature, tropical monsoon climate, weather Prior Knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo.) 1. Climate is the average of all weather conditions in a location. ...

Student Exploration Equilibrium and Concentration Gizmo

Gizmo Questions and Answers 100% Passed The four rows of data below show the boiling points for a solution with no solute, sucrose (C12 H22 O11) sodium chloride (NaCl), and calcium chloride (CaCl2) (not in that order). Which boiling point corresponds to calcium chloride? 101.53 degrees C which of the following solutions will have the lowest freezing point? 1.0 mol/kg sodium phosphide (Na3P) Which of the following compounds will be most effective in melting the ice on the rods when the air tem...

Student Exploration Measuring Volume Gizmo

Student Exploration: Longitudinal Waves Prior Knowledge Questions ​(Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo.) In many science fiction movies, an evil alien spaceship explodes with an enormous KABOOM!! Suppose you were floating in space at a safe distance from a large explosion such as the supernova at left. Do you think you would you hear anything? Explain. I don’t think so, I think the sound doesn’t have anything to vibrate to make the noise in space. Gizmo Warm-up No sounds can be heard in outer...