Ecology
This term describes living parts of an ecosystem like plants and animals.
What are biotic factors?
This is anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
This is Earth spinning on its axis.
What is rotation?
This type of electricity involves moving electrons.
What is current electricity?
This type of change forms a new substance.
What is a chemical change?
These organisms make their own food using sunlight.
What are producers?
These are the three main states of matter.
What are solid, liquid, and gas?
This movement of Earth causes the year.
What is revolution?
This type of circuit has only one path for current.
What is a series circuit?
This part of an atom has no charge.
What is a neutron?
This shows many interconnected food chains.
What is a food web?
This subatomic particle has a positive charge.
What is a proton?
These are caused by the Moon’s gravity pulling on Earth’s oceans.
What are tides?
This device opens and closes a circuit.
What is a switch?
This relationship keeps population sizes balanced between two species.
What is a predator-prey relationship?
This species is not native and harms the ecosystem it enters.
What is an invasive species?
This number on the periodic table determines an element’s identity.
What is the atomic number?
This happens when the Moon blocks the Sun.
What is a solar eclipse?
Copper is an example of this type of material that allows electrons to flow easily.
What is a conductor?
This type of charging uses a neutral object to rearrange electrons without touching it.
What is charging by induction?
When a population overshoots this, resources become scarce and population size decreases.
What is carrying capacity?
This element has an atomic number of 12 and is found in the alkaline earth metals group.
What is magnesium (Mg)?
This Moon phase occurs when half of the Moon is illuminated and increasing.
What is first quarter?
This formula is used to calculate voltage, energy, or charge.
V=E/Q
Using public transit instead of driving reduces this personal environmental impact.
What is an ecological footprint?