What is the difference between a rock and a mineral?
A mineral is what makes up a rock
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What is a permeable rock?
It is a rock which water can run through
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Name two types of weathering that can happen to rocks.
Chemical weathering and physical weathering
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How are sedimentary rocks formed?
Layers of sediment are deposited on the sea bed and more and more layers occur so the bottom layers are pushed down by pressure
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What is the order of the planets in our solar system?
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn,Neptune and Uranus
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Why does Earth have days?
Because the Earth spins on its axis so when it is facing the sun it is day and when its not its night
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Why do we have leap years?
We have leap years because the Earths year is 365.25 days long so every four years there is an extra day
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What are the different parts of a plant cell?
It has nucleus, mitochondria, cytoplasm, ribsomes, cell wall, cell membrane
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What is a contact and non contact force?
A contact force is a force that needs to be touching the object for the force to act on it and a non contact force doesn't need to touch
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how do you calculate density?
Divide the mass by the volume?
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What is the difference between weight and mass?
Weight is how much gravity is pulling down on something and mass is the amount of matter which makes something up
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What instrument is used for measuring electricity?
Ammeter
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What does a resistor do in a circuit?
It only lets a certain amount of electricity at once
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What does a fuse do?
It is a piece of wire that will melt if the current gets too big
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What is the difference between a series and parallel circuit?
A series circuit only has one way round the circuit and series has two ways of going round so if a bulb blows on a parallel circuit the circuit still works
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
What is a permeable rock?
Back
It is a rock which water can run through
Card 3
Front
Name two types of weathering that can happen to rocks.
Back
Card 4
Front
How are sedimentary rocks formed?
Back
Card 5
Front
What is the order of the planets in our solar system?
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