🌍 Earth & Space Science
a medium sized star and the largest object in our solar system
What is the Sun?
A solid, liquid, and gas are all called these.
What are the states of matter?
This is what we call all the living and nonliving things in an area.
What is an ecosystem?
70-75%
What is the how much of Earth is covered in water?
This is the name of the path that planets follow as they orbit the Sun.
What is orbit?
The Sun looks so big and bright because
What is because it is closest to Earth?
This type of change creates a new substance, like when iron rusts or wood burns.
What is a chemical change?
This is the path energy takes through different organisms in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
These are the four major Earth systems that all interact with each other.
What are the atmosphere, geosphere, biosphere and hydrosphere?
This is the first planet from the Sun.
What is Mercury?
The movement of Earth around the Sun is called this
What is revolution?
Molecules in this state move freely and fill the shape of their container
What is liquid?
The movement of energy through a food chain starts with
What are producers?
Also, accept the sun
When rainwater soaks into the soil and helps plants grow, these two systems are interacting.
What are the hydrosphere and the biosphere?
These are the four rocky planets closest to the Sun
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
The spinning of Earth on its axis causes this daily cycle.
What is called day and night?
When wood burns, it turns into ash, smoke, and gases. The total amount of matter stays the same before and after the change. This is called:
What is The Law of Conservation
This is the name for the living things that get their energy by breaking down dead plants and animals, returning nutrients to the soil.
What are decomposers?
A volcano erupts, sending ash into the air and lava onto the land. Name at least two Earth systems that interact in this event.
What are the atmosphere and the geosphere?
(could also be the geosphere ad the biosphere)
Your shadow changes size and direction throughout the day because of this object’s position.
What is the sun?
The sun rises in the_________________ and sets in the ___________________.
What is east and west?
This change happens when matter changes size or shape but stays the same substance.
What is physical change?
An example of a decomposer is this kind of organism that lives in soil.
What is fungus or bacteria?
This is the movement of water through Earth’s surface, atmosphere, and living things.
What is the water cycle?
This is why shadows move during the day.
What is the rotation of the Earth?