Matter
What are the three basic types of matter?
Solid, Liquid, & Gas
Vocabulary: A coyote is chasing a rabbit to eat. The rabbit is an example of what?
Prey
Earth rotates on its axis while it revolves around the sun. How long does it take Earth to make one full rotation on its axis?
1 day or 24 hours
Vocabulary: When people in ancient cultures studied the night sky, they saw patterns in the stars. What are these patterns called?
Constellations
The majority of Earth's fresh water is found where?
Glaciers and Ice Caps
Atoms are tightly packed together in a fixed position in what type of matter?
Solid
Vocabulary: Organism in an ecosystem that...
1. eats meat
2. eats plants
3. eats plants and meat
1. carnivore
2. herbivore
3. omnivore
Earth rotates on its axis while it revolves around the sun. How long does it take Earth to make a full revolution around the sun?
1 year or 365 1/4 days
What was an ancient tool that helped track the time using shadows?
Sundial
Name two of Earth's features that are part of the geosphere?
Volcanoes, Mountains, Hills, Valley, Soil (any land feature)
Atoms that take the shape of their container are in which state?
Liquid
Complete the food chain:
Grass-->Grasshopper-->__________--->Snake
Bird, Frog, Toad....
Due to Earth's rotation around the sun, it is not the same time in West Virginia and California. These states are located in different __________ __________.
Time Zones
Due to Earth's proximity to the sun, we are the only planet within the _________________ zone.
Habitable
Gas
When matter goes from a solid state to a liquid state, it has gone through what process?
Melting
Vocabulary: A special role each organism in an ecosystem plays.
Niche
What is the first phase of every moon cycle?
New Moon
Vocabulary: ______________ pull is the attraction between an object and Earth.
Gravitational
Vocabulary: The biosphere is made up of all of Earth's _____________ factors.
Biotic
When matter goes from a liquid state to a solid state, it has gone through what process?
Freezing
Give me two examples of decomposers.
Why do we have leap years?
What is the difference between a meteor and a meteorite?
A meteorite is a meteor that hits the Earth's surface.
What are the three words ending in -tion that are part of the water cycle?
Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation