A community that includes all living and nonliving things found in a certain area.
What is the ecosystem
100
Students designed a tool to dig and cut into the soil. The type of simple machine they created
What is a wedge
100
Weather readings taken over a long period of time
What is the climate
Double Jeopardy
100
A small river that joins another larger river
What is a Tributary
100
A diagram of several connected food chains
What is a food web
200
Some organisms must get energy by eating other organisms.
What is consumers
200
Two people are pulling on the opposite ends of a rope. This will happen if they are pulling on the rope with equal but opposite forces
What is it will stay in place between the two people
200
is the average weather conditions in an area over a long period of time.
what is climate
200
A large bend in a stream channel that develops when soil is eroded from one bank and deposited in another
What is Meander
200
Includes all the non-living things in an ecosystem (example: light, temperature, and soil composition).
What is abiotic
300
Organisms that use the Sun's energy to make their own food (all plants).
What is producers
300
This increases as a rock falls to the ground
What is the momentum of the rock
300
A large body of air that has the same temperature and level of humidity thoughout
What is air mass
Double Jeopardy
300
The process in which earth's materials are broken down and carried away.
What is erosion
300
The process in which earth materials are broken down by wind, ice, water or gravity.
What is weathering
400
Animals that eat both plants and other animals.
What is a omnivore
400
This would most likely be part of a weather station in a school
What is a rain gauge
400
A cold air mass moves under a warm mass & pushes the warm air upward.
What is cold front
400
A map that shows parts of landforms - The closer the lines, the steeper the mountain
What is a Topographical Map
400
A barrier built to contain the flow of water
What is dam
500
THIS is the role each animal has; sometimes different populations occupy the same area and must compete for resources like food, water, and shelter. Often the weaker population will die and move to a new area.
What is niche
500
A student is riding a bike and applies the brakes. THIS helps the bike to stop
What is friction
500
Occurs when a warm air mass and a cold air mass meet
What is stationary front
500
The process in which humans supply waters to the land through artifical ways.
What is Irrigation
500
The type of environment mostly populated with oak, hickory, beech, and maple trees