Ecosystems
The huge, electric spark that you see during a thunderstorm.
What is lightning?
A biome where grasses, not trees, are the main plant life.
What is a Grassland?
A water based ecosystem.
What is Acquatic?
The speed and direction of a moving object.
What is velocity?
An attraction between the mass of the Earth and the mass of an object. This is why everything is pulled back to Earth.
What is Gravity?
Eat other organisms for their energy. They are further grouped by the type of food they eat.
What are consumers?
A sandy or rocky biome with little precipitation and little plant life. Bonus: How do plants in this biome adapt to survive the lack of rain?
What is a Desert?
What is they grow deep roots and store water in their leaves.
Saltwater ecosystems that covers about 70% of Earth.
What are Oceans?
Occurs when a force causes the speed of an object to decrease (slow down)
What is Deceleration?
A force that opposes the motion of one object moving past another. This causes an object to slow down or stop.
What is Friction?
This is the hunted / eaten. For example a fox eats a rabbit. The rabbit is the fox's _____________ in a food web, the arrow points away from this.
What is Prey?
A large, treeless biome in the arctic regions, where the ground is frozen all year round. This is the coldest of all the biomes. Bonus: What is the name for the ground that is frozen all year round?
What is the Tundra?
What is Permafrost?
A water ecosystem where fresh water meets with salt water. Organisms that live here must adapt to live in both freshwater and saltwater.
What is an Estuary
The tendency of a moving object to continue in the same direction when an opposing force acts upon it.
What is Momentum?
Newton's Law that states "What goes up, must come down," due to the Earth's gravitational pull.
What is Newton's Law of Gravity?
Shows the relationship between all the organisms in a community. It shows how populations must compete for food with the arrows going from the prey to the predator.
What is a Food Web?
A cool forest biome of conifers in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is a Taiga or Coniferous Forest?
Rivers, Streams, Ponds and Lakes are examples of what type of ecosystem?
What is a Freshwater Ecosystem?
When one object applies force to another, this is what we call this.
What is Action?
Newton's Law that says for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton's Third Law of Motion?
A relationship between two kinds of organisms that benefits/ helps both of them. For example bees and flowers have this type of relationship.
What is Mutualism or an Interdependent Relationship?
A forest biome with many kinds of trees that lose their leaves each autumn. We live in this biome.
Bonus: How do plants on the forest floor compete for sunlight through the forest canopy?
What is a Deciduous or Temperate Forest?
What is by climbing up larger trees?
A land based ecosystem.
What is a Terrestrial Ecosystem?
A change (speed up) of velocity.
What is Acceleration?
Newton's Law that says when an unbalanced force acts on an object, the object's acceleration equals the force divided by the object's mass.
What is Newton's Second Law of Motion?