Vocabulary
Matter and Its Interactions
Nat. Processes & Human Act.
Mat/Energy in Organ & Eco.
Miscellaneous
100
To keep the same or save.
What is conservation?
100
Change in phase and state but no new substances are formed.
What is a physical change?
100
Two plate boundaries going in opposite directions away from each other.
What are divergent boundaries?
100
Organism that gets its energy directly from the sun creating its own food.
What is a producer?
100
Variety of living things in an ecosystem.
What is biodiversity?
200
A map that tells you the shape and elevation of the land.
What is a topographic map?
200
Identify the reactants in the following equation:
C₃H₈ + 5O₂ → 4H₂O + 3CO₂
C₃H₈ + 5O₂
200
Subduction zones causes crust to be destroyed at this boundary.
What are convergent boundaries?
200
Organism that gets its energy indirectly from the sun.
What is a consumer?
200
1/3 or 33% of _________ depend on wetlands.
What are endangered species?
300
Refers to the strong bond between the same kind of molecules (molecules stick to other water molecules).
What is cohesion?
300
Breaking apart compounds using an electrical current.
What is electrolysis?
300
What type of boundary causes frequent earthquakes.
What is a transform boundary?
300
What are the 3 benefits of wetlands?
Home to wild life, filters water, flood protection.
300
How do wetlands soak up floods?
Water molecules sticking together (cohesion).
Plants slow down water.
400
When heat is released (temperature increases) in a chemical change and bonds are broken.
What is exothermic?
400
Is matter conserved in the following equation:
C₃H₈ + 5O₂ → 4H₂O + 3CO₂
Yes! 3 carbons, 8 hydrogens, 10 oxygens for both reactants and products.
400
What is the contour interval?
100ft
400
3 types of wetlands.
What are marshes, swamps, and bogs?
400
Heat is absorbed (temperature decreases), and molecular bonds are made.
What is an endothermic reaction?
500
A type of change that rearranges molecules, forming new substances with different properties.
What is a chemical change?
500
Insects are able to run across a lake without sinking because of this property of water.
What is surface tension?
500
Lines that show equal points of elevation.
What is a contour line?
500
What would happen to the rabbit population if the hawks were to go extinct?
Rabbit population would increase.
500
Plants bring water from their roots to their leaves because of this property of matter.
What is capillary action?