An animal or plant that consumes or obtains nutrients from animals
What is a carnivore
100
The picking up and carrying away of pieces of rock
What is erosion?
100
The process by which a liquid is converted to its vapor phase by heating the liquid
What is evaporation
100
A type of simple machine; slanted surface that makes it easier to move a mass from a lower point to a higher point
What is an inclined plane?
100
The curving of the path of a moving object caused by Earth's rotation
What is the Coriolis effect?
200
An organism that feeds on other organisms for food.
What is a consumer?
200
The breaking down of rock
What is weathering?
200
The path water takes as it is being cycled through the environment, including condensation, evaporation, and precipitation
What is the water cycle?
200
The property of a body, due to its mass, that causes it to resist any change in its motion unless overcome by a force.
What is inertia?
200
The first species living in an otherwise lifeless area
What is a pioneer species?
300
Transfer of energy through various stages as a result of feeding patterns of a series of organisms
What is a food chain?
300
the s-shaped curves of a river
What is a meander?
300
A puffy cloud that appears to rise up from a flat bottom
What is a cumulus cloud?
300
stored energy
What is potential energy?
300
The first community thriving in an otherwise lifeless area
Pioneer community
400
A chemical process by which plants trap light energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates.
What is photosynthesis?
400
The natural processes that break down and change rock into soil, sand, and other materials; differs from erosion in that no transport of those materials takes place.
What is weathering?
400
The layers of gas that surround Earth, other planets, or stars
What is atmosphere?
400
An object at rest will remain at rest and an object in motion will remain in motion enless acted upon by a force
What is Newton's First Law of Motion?
400
The overlapping food chains in an ecosystem
Food Web
500
An organism that makes its own food from the environment; usually a green plant
What is producer?
500
A resource that can only be replenished over millions of years
What is a nonrenewable resource?
500
A physical change that occurs when matter changes to another state (i.e., liquid, gas, or solid)
What is change of state?
500
A force of attraction between two masses
What is gravitation?
500
Any alteration of the natural environment producing a condition harmful to living organisms