Earth Science
The layer of the air that surrounds Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
Ability of an organism to stay alive.
What is survival?
When a liquid takes in energy or changes to a gas.
What is evaporation?
A large, round body that revolves around a star
What is a planet?
Information collected during a scientific investigation
What is evidence?
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What is data?
This are the cause of mountains, earthquakes, and volcanoes.
What is plate tectonics?
The process by which plants and plantlike organisms make food.
What is photosynthesis?
This is the only way in which light can travel.
What is a straight line?
Pieces of rock that break off of asteroids and travel through space.
What are meteoroids?
Too small to be seen without using a microscope
What is microscopic?
The average temperature and rainfall of an area over many years
What is climate?
This person is considered the father of genetics.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
A combination of two or more different substances in which the substances keep their identities.
What is a mixture?
Our home galaxy.
What is the Milky Way?
A series of controlled steps, which can be repeated, for the purpose of answering a testable question.
What is an investigation?
The breaking down of rocks on Earth's surface into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
This person is credited with proposing the theory of evolution.
Who is Charles Darwin?
A push or pull, which may cause a change in an object's motion
What is a force?
Pinwheel-like groups of stars.
What are spiral galaxies?
Causing damage, harm, or disadvantage.
What is detrimental?
A type of rock that forms from melted rock that cools and hardens.
What is igneous?
An organism's complete role, or function, in its ecosystem.
What is a niche?
The amount of space a solid, liquid or gas takes up.
What is volume?
This planet in the Milky Way has the most moons.
What is Jupiter?
This is the long term that DNA stands for.
What is Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid?