Earth’s Changes and Resources
A natural material found in Earth that people use.
What is a natural resource?
An organism that makes its own food.
What is a producer?
A living thing.
What is an organism?
A large body in space that revolves around a star.
What is a planet?
The ability to do work or cause change.
What is energy?
A resource that can be replaced in a short time.
What is a renewable resource?
An animal that eats only plants.
What is an herbivore?
A feature passed from parents to offspring.
What is an inherited trait?
A tool used to observe distant objects in space.
What is a telescope?
The amount of matter in an object.
What is mass?
The wearing away of Earth’s surface.
What is weathering?
An animal that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
An action that helps an organism survive in its environment.
What is a behavior (or learned behavior)?
The imaginary line Earth spins on.
What is an axis?
The flow of electric charge through a conductor.
What is electricity?
The movement of weathered materials from one place to another.
What is erosion?
An organism that breaks down dead plants and animals.
What is a decomposer?
The role an organism plays in its environment.
What is a niche
The movement of Earth around the Sun once a year.
What is revolution?
A material that does not allow heat or electricity to pass through easily.
What is an insulator?
The process of dropping sediments in a new place.
What is deposition?
A diagram that shows how energy flows between organisms.
What is a food web?
A characteristic that helps an organism survive and reproduce.
What is an adaptation?
The pull that keeps the planets in orbit around the Sun.
What is gravity?
A change that creates a new substance with different properties.
What is a chemical change?