Force and Balance vocabulary
a force that acts in one direction
What is an action force
adults
what are completely grown organisms
when parents pass along traits to offspring
What is heredity
special features of plants and animals that allow them to survive in their habitats
what are adaptations
measures wind speed
what is an anemometer
what usually or normally occurs
What is average
to pull closer
what is attract
changes in how organisms act
What are behavioral adaptations
aquatic
of or near the water
axis
pretend line that goes from north to south poles
graphs that show things in bars of different heights or lengths
What is a bar graph
2 or more forces acting with the same strength against each other
What is balanced force
study of living things
what is biology
seedling
plants that is beginning to grow above ground
a habitat( ecosystem) with enough food water and other resources for all of the organisms that live their
What is a balanced ecosystem
weather over time
What's climate
a picture about data
What is a graph
permanent rectangular magnet
What is a bar magnet
traits that combine the traits of both parents
what are blended traits
juveniles
What are young organisms
bayou
What is a creek or river in a swamp
drought
what is a period of time with no rain
rules for how forces work
What are laws of motion
compass
What is a tool that used to find the North and South Poles using a magnet
physical adaptation where animals try and look like their surroundings
What is camouflage
a flock of birds' song
what is a learned behavior
colony of bees or ants, herd horses, flock of birds, pack of wolves, pride of lions
What are the names of groups of animals
line that cut earth into North and south
What ids the equator
levee
What is raised bank on the side of a river to prevent flooding
Electrical force( electricity)
What is the force from movement of tiny particles called electrons
smallest unit of life
What is the cell?
changes/ stages of growth in an organisms life
What is the life cycle
Deserts, forests, tundra, marine environments
What are eco systems
hemisphere
what is half of the earth North and south or east and west
everything on the earth is made of
What is matter
static electricity
elctricity that is built up in an object t that flows freely
coniferous trees
What are trees with needles not leaves
life span
What is how long an animal lives
forestry
What is the Study of forests so we can conserve for the future
humid
what is damp or wet
scientific word for a copycat
What is a mimic
non touching force
What is a force from a distance that can attract or repel objects
trees that lose their leaves in winter
What are deciduous trees
change form larva to adult in an insects life
What is metamorphosis
fossil fuels
What is oil and gas
spinning wind over water that can last weeks and can hit land
What is a hurricane
press plants use to make food from sunlight
What is photosynthesis
pulls toward earth all the time
What is gravity?
species that are close to extinction
What are endangered species
migration
behavioral adaptation of moving in a pattern from place to place in search of food and warmth
smaller parts of an ecosystem
What are habitats
What is a meteorologist
as symbol that shows information
What is a pictograph ( used in keys and legends)
attracts lightening and pulls it to the ground
What is a lightening rod
all the living and non living things in an areas
What is an environment
descent wants of plants and animals
What is offspring
remains of plants and animals that have become stone
What are fossils
orbit
path a planet takes around another object in space
The earth orbits the sun and the moon orbits the earth
measure sth amount of rainfall in a area
What is a rain gauge
produces a magnetic field
What is a magnet
when there are no more members of a speecies
What is extinct
changes in animals bodies
What are physical adaptations
nutrients
What is food
when the earth spins we say it
What is rotates
to have offspring
What is reproduce
force that surrounds a magnet
What is magnetic field
group of birds
What is a flock
materials inside cells that tells the body how to grow( recipe)
What is DNA
prehistoric continent that held all the land together
What is Pangaea
what areas is warm all year
What are tropical areas
Where re most tornadoes found
Midwest ( Tornado alley)
magnetism
Force of magnets pushing or pulling another magnet
when animals sleep through winter
what is hibernation
prey
What are animals who are eaten by other animals
Paleontologists
Who studies fossils
shows which way the wind is blowing
What is weather vane
Ring of Fire, Pacific Rim
Where re most volcanoes found?
movement from one place to another
What is motion
traits from your parents that you are born with
what are inherited traits
imprints of fossils or footprints etc
What are trace fossils
animals that eat other animals
What are predators
reaction force
force that acts in the opposite direction of an action force( swing must come back, ball will fall back down)
behaviors that are inherited
What are instincts
when an organism doesn't get what it needs its growth will be
What is stunted
before written history
pre historic( pre history)