The third planet from the sun
What is Earth?
Solid, liquid, and gas
What are the states of matter?
Water that is falling out of the sky - this could be rain, snow, sleet, or hail
What is precipitation?
A community of interacting organisms and their environment
What is an Ecosystem?
The number of things in a certain area (example: the number of molecules in a liquid object)
What is density?
Two ways we can scale down the Solar System for a model
What is by distance and by planet size?
When a molecule gains energy it changes by
What is moves more and expands?
Strong rising currents of air within the storm, called updrafts, carry water droplets to a height where they freeze
What is hail?
A relationship between organisms in which one species benefits while the other species is harmed
What is parasitism?
Variety of life on Earth or in an ecosystem
What is Biodiversity?
Throughout the year, different parts of Earth receive the Sun's most direct rays causing seasons. This affect is created because of the Earth's...
What is the Earth's tilted axis?
The direction that energy transfers
What is more to less?
When the invisible water vapor in the air condenses on particles in the air to form visible water droplets or ice crystals.
What is a cloud?
A relationship between to organisms in which both species benefit
What is mutualism?
A substance which does not readily allow the passage of heat, sound, or electricity
What is insulator?
This phenomena occurs when the Sun casts Earth's shadow onto the Moon
What is Lunar eclipse?
Energy that is transferred between systems or objects with different temperatures
What is heat?
A transition zone between two different air masses at the Earth's surface. Each air mass has unique temperature and humidity characteristics.
What is weather front?
An association between two or more different biological species or organisms
What is Symbiotic Relationship?
What is convection?
What is Waxing Crescent Moon?
The process by which heat energy is transmitted through collisions between molecules
What is conduction?
Warm air above land expands and rises, and heavier, cooler air rushes in to take its place
What is wind?
An association between two organisms in which one benefits and the other derives neither benefit nor harm
What is commensalism?
The distance between the earth to the sun that scientists use as a unit to measure in space.