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This type of change creates a new substance.
What is a chemical change?
Plants use this process to make their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
An organism that makes its own food.
What is a producer?
The condition of the atmosphere at a certain time and place.
What is weather?
The Earth’s tilt and revolution around the Sun cause these.
What are seasons?
Any resource or environmental condition that restricts the size, growth, or distribution of a population within an ecosystem.
What is a limiting factor?
This gas is released during photosynthesis.
What is oxygen?
All the living and nonliving things in an area together make up this.
What is an ecosystem?
The long-term average pattern of weather in an area.
What is climate?
The season with the most direct sunlight in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is summer?
An imaginary horizontal line that circles the Earth that measures the distance north or south of the Equator.
What are lines of latitude?
The organelle where photosynthesis occurs.
What is the chloroplast?
A relationship in which both organisms benefit.
What is mutualism?
Warm air rises because it is less ________.
What is dense?
This season begins around December 21 in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is winter?
The apparent curving or deflection of the path of objects, winds, or ocean currents traveling long distances across Earth's surface.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
This process releases energy from food in cells.
What is cellular respiration?
Organisms that break down dead organisms and recycle nutrients back into the soil.
What are decomposers?
This tool measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
The reasons for Earth having seasons.
What is the Earth is titled on its axis as it revolves around the sun?
This law states that matter cannot be created or destroyed in a chemical reaction.
What is the Law of Conservation of Mass?
The reactants for photosynthesis.
What are glucose and oxygen?
An atmospheric gas that absorbs and traps heat from the sun.
What are greenhouse gases?
The pressure system associated with stormy weather.
What is a low pressure system?
During this event, day and night are nearly equal in length everywhere on Earth.
What is an equinox?