Ecosystems
These organisms make their own food using sunlight
What are producers
This state of matter has a fixed shape and fixed volume
What is a solid?
The star at the center of our solar system
What is the Sun?
About 97% of Earth’s water is found here
What are the oceans?
This sphere includes all the land on Earth.
What is the geosphere?
This term describes all the living and non-living things in one place interacting together.
What is an ecosystem?
This state of matter takes the shape of its container but has a fixed volume.
What is a liquid?
This unit of distance—about 9.46 trillion kilometers—measures how far light travels in one year.
What is a light-year?
The continual movement of water through the atmosphere and back to Earth.
What is the water cycle?
“All the water on earth, including lakes, oceans, and glaciers.
What is the hydrosphere?
A relationship where one organism eats another for energy.
What is a food chain?
The process of a liquid becoming a gas.
What is evaporation?
This factor most directly affects how bright a star appears from Earth.
What is distance?
Water stored underground in layers of rock and soil
What is groundwater?
The sphere of air around Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
These organisms break down dead material and recycle nutrients back into the soil.
Who are decomposers?
The change when a gas becomes a liquid.
What is condensation?
This Earth motion causes stars to seem to move across the sky from east to west each night.
What is Earth’s rotation?
This type of water has low salt content and is found in rivers, lakes, and wetlands
What is freshwater?
All living things on Earth make up this sphere.
What is the biosphere?
A diagram that shows many food chains and how they overlap in an ecosystem
What is a food web?
What is sublime?
This characteristic of Earth—its tilt—causes the seasons and changes in daylight length during the year.
What is the Earth’s axis?
This process returns water vapor to tiny droplets in the air, forming clouds
What is condensation?
This layer of the geosphere is liquid and surrounds Earth’s inner core.
What is the outer core?