Matter Matters
True or False: The smell of perfume spreading across the room provides evidence that matter is made up of particles too small to be seen.
True
This state of matter is easily compressed.
What is gas?
Plants are called this type of organism because they make their own food.
What is a producer?
This sphere includes all the water on Earth, such as oceans, rivers, lakes, and glaciers.
What is the hydrosphere?
If you went to the moon, your weight would change because of lower gravity, but this "M" word measurement of how much "stuff" is in your body stays the same. Name it:
What is mass?
When a solid turns into a liquid because of heat, this change is called this.
What is melting?
Definite shape, definite volume
What is a solid?
Animals that eat plants are called this.
What is a herbivore?
This process moves weathered rock and soil to a new location.
What is erosion?
Most of the Earth's water is found in Oceans. What percentage of Earth's water is actually fresh and drinkable?
What is 3%?
This state of matter has a definite shape and definite volume.
What is a solid?
Indefinite shape, fills the room or space it is in.
What is a gas?
A diagram that shows who eats whom in an ecosystem.
What is a food chain?
What is the crysophere?
What is the hydrosphere that is frozen ice?
Aluminum foil is used to wrap food because it bends easily without breaking. This property is called this
What is malleability?
When a substance changes and forms a completely new substance, it is called this type of change.
What is a chemical change?
This property describes how heavy something is for its size.
What is density?
This term describes all the living and nonliving things in an environment.
What is an ecosystem?
When plant roots break rocks apart, this shows an interaction between the biosphere and this sphere made of rocks and land.
What is the geosphere?
Which organisms use special enzymes to recycle matter in an ecosystem?
Salt disappearing in water is an example of this type of change.
What is a physical change?
If you pump more air into a balloon, what happens to the number of air particles inside?
The number increases?
When too many predators enter an ecosystem, this may happen to prey populations.
They decrease.
Rain falling from clouds and soaking into the ground shows an interaction between these two spheres.
What is the atmosphere and the geosphere?
Aluminum foil is used to wrap food because it bends easily without breaking. This property is called what?
What is malleability?