Biology
Green plants get the energy they need to make food from this.
What is the sun?
The gases that surround Earth.
Anything that has mass and volume.
What is matter?
The closest and brightest star in the sky.
What is the sun?
The place on Earth where the majority of the water is found.
What is the ocean?
What is the biosphere?
The process that occurs when the ocean waves remove sand from the beach.
What is erosion?
The state of matter that has a definite volume and definite shape.
What is a solid?
During a sunny day, a shadow would be shortest at this time.
What is 12:00pm or noon?
The total amount of water on Earth.
What is the hydrosphere?
These organisms break down dead plants and animals and recycle the nutrients back into the food chain.
What are decomposers?
A mountain range is part of this Earth system.
What is the geosphere?
The state of matter that has a definite volume and takes the shape of its container.
What is a liquid?
The force that attracts the Earth to the sun.
What is gravity?
Rain, snow, sleet and hail that falls back to the Earth from the clouds.
What is precipitation?
The animal that has that most varied diet.
What is an omnivore?
These are evidence of organisms that lived in the past.
What are fossils?
The toaster uses this type of energy to produce heat.
What is electrical energy?
The movement of the sun that causes day and night.
What is the Earth's rotation?
On a humid summer day, a student notices that liquid water has formed on the outside of an ice-cold glass of lemonade. The liquid water came from which process in the water cycle.
What is condensation?
The organisms that create their own food or energy.
What are producers?
The process of decomposing, breaking up, or changing the color of rocks. (Hint: mechanical and chemical ____________)
What is weathering?
The type of energy needed to produce a shadow under a tree.
What is light energy?
A star can appear in winter but not in summer because of this.
What is Earth's orbit or revolution?
When an ice cube is taken out of a freezer and placed on the counter at room temperature its state of matter changes from one state to another.
What is from a solid to a liquid?