Weather
This type of weather conditions can be expected when there is a decrease in atmospheric pressure.
What is cloudy skies or bad weather?
This is the body system that works closely with the circulatory system to ensure all cells have adequate Oxygen.
What is the respiratory system?
The part of the food/energy pyramid that is always the largest.
What are producers?
An object travels 5 feet in 3 seconds and then 6 feet in the next 3 seconds and then 3 feet in the final 3 seconds. This would describe the motion of this object.
What is getting faster and then slowing down?
This is the process in which a liquid becomes a gas
What is evaporation
This type of front usually brings the most severe form of weather including heavy clouds and storms.
What is a cold front?
The tube that carries food to the stomach.
What is the esophagus?
Organisms in this ecosystem must be able to adapt to a varying level of salt.
What is the estuary?
A parachute will use this to fight the force of gravity.
What is air resistance? (friction)
These traits are passed down from our parents
What are inherited traits?
Temperature and precipitation records for 30 years or longer are used to define this.
What is climate?
This body system is responsible for the five senses.
What is the Nervous System?
This biome has the most terrestrial biodiversity as well as copious amounts of rainfall.
What is the tropical rainforest
How is no change in position (or standing still) represented on a time/distance graph?
What is by a straight horizontal line?
Heat is transferred in this way by direct contact
What is conduction?
A warm ocean current that causes an increase in temperatures for land adjacent to it
What is the Gulf Stream?
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These are a classification of involuntary muscles that include the arteries, stomach, and intestines.
What are smooth muscles?
This abiotic factor is ultimately responsible for the energy of all organisms.
What is the sun?
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Newton's third law states that for every action there is what type of reaction
What is equal and opposite?
Rotting fruit, burned paper, and oxidized metal are examples of this.
What is chemical change?
The wind pattern that is responsible for moving air masses across North America.
What are prevailing westerlies?
This is the part of the digestive system that is mainly responsible for pulling the nutrients into the blood stream.
What is the small intestine?
The term used to describe the role an organism plays within an ecosystem that allows different populations to share the same space.
What is a niche?
Newton's First Law is also known as the Law of _______?
What is inertia
These type of organisms need transport systems in order to receive all that they need to survive.
What are multi-cellular organisms?