Ecosystems
Any living thing
A smell
Odor
A force that pulls things toward the earth or each other
The basic unit of life
Cell
To look or be like something or someone else
Resemble
Day to day conditions outside
Community of organisms interacting together
Ecosystem
Gas
A forces fight against motion, slows things down
Friction
Muscles that work automatically
Involuntary muscles
Behaviors that animals are born with and don't need to learn
Instincts
Process where plants release water vapor into the atmosphere through tiny pores
Transpiration
Where saltwater and freshwater mix
Estuary
Insulator
A place where something has started or been put
Position
The purpose or job that something does
Functions
Actions or ways of doing things that people or animals learn through experience, observation, or practice, and not through being born
Learned Behaviors
Imaginary lines that extend around the earth horizontally
Latitude
The power or ability to make things happen, it is the power to do work.
Energy
A material that heat easily moves through
Conductor
Acceleration
A colorless, odorless gas that is essential for life
Oxygen
The passing of traits from parents to offspring
Inheritance
Large body of air with the same temperature and moisture
Like a family of living things, like plants or animals, that all have similar traits
Species
Matter changing from one form (solid, liquid, or gas) to another
Changing state
The main points on a compass: North, South, East, West
Cardinal Direction
Any living thing from a tiny bacteria to a giant whale
Organism
A characteristic or ability an organism develops during its lifetime due to its environment or experiences, not inherited from parents
Aquired Traits
A violently rotating column of air that forms within a thunderstorm and extends from the cloud to the ground
To sort things into groups based on shared characteristics and properties
Classify
A special kind of mixture where one substance, called a solute, is evenly spread out and dissolved in another substance, called the solvent
Solution
How fast an object moves in a certain direction; speed and direction
Velocity
System that sends and receives messages throughout the body
Nervous System
People who gave the child their genes
Biological Parents
A wind that blows from the land towards the water, usually at night, when the land cools down faster than the sea
Land Breeze
A term used to describe how all living things in an ecosystem are connected
Web of life
The process where heat, or thermal energy, moves from something hot to something cold
Heat Transfer
To figure out what something means, often by explaining data or observations, in a way that makes sense
Interpret
A group of cells that work together (muscle cells, skin cells, etc)
Tissue
A group of people born around the same time
Generation
An area where the air pressure brings nice weather
High pressure system
Anything from nature that living things, including humans, can use that has value. It can be anything we need to survive, like air or water, or something we use to make our lives better, like plants and animals.
Resources
Something that can be counted or measured and given a number, like the number of objects or the length of something
Quantitative
The overall push or pull on an object when multiple forces are acting on it. Its like the total force that determines whether the object will start moving, stop moving, or change direction.
Net force
Tiny little "organs" that live inside a cell that have specific jobs to do. They help cells work and stay alive.
organelles
The study of how traits are passed from parents to offspring, also known as heredity
Genetics
A scientific instrument used to measure wind speed and direction
Anemometer