These notions about science were culled from essays, exams, and classroom discussions. Most come from fifth and sixth graders. (The Greatest Jokebook Ever by Mel Greene)
A vibration is a motion that cannot make up its mind which way it wants to go.
Genetics explains why you look like your father and if you don’t why you should.
Vacuums are nothings. We only mention them to let them know they’re there.
Some oxygen molecules help fires burn while others help make water, so sometimes it’s brother against brother.
We say the cause of perfume disappearing is evaporation.
To most people solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists solutions are things that are all mixed up.
In looking at a drop of water under a microscope, we find there are twice as many H’s as O’s.
Clouds just keep circling the Earth around and around. There is not much else to do.
Water vapor gets together in a cloud. When it is big enough to be called a drop, it does.
Humidity is the experience of looking for air and finding water.