Soils
Moving Earth Materials
Go with the Flow
Maps
Energy Transfer
This 'n' That
100
What is soil?
100
The process by which earth materials are moved by wind or water.
What is erosion?
100
The flow of electricity.
What is current?
100
The elevation of an object tells you its vertical distance above this reference point.
What is average sea level?
100
The arrows in a food chain and food web indicate the direction in which matter and _______ move.
What is energy?
100
In this process, two materials interact in such a way to form a new substance.
What is a chemical reaction?
200
By this process, dead plant and animal matter is broken down to create humus.
What is decomposition or decay?
200
This type of rock is formed by layers of deposited sediments being compressed together over millions of years.
What is sedimentary rock?
200
A magnet you can turn on and off.
What is an electromagnet?
200
This type of map shows the shape of a landform, vegetation and water bodies in the area, and elevations.
What is a topographic map?
200
The energy for turning on a crank flashlight comes from this.
What is motion or food or the sun?
200
In a food chain, the energy starts with this nonliving factor.
What is the sun/sunlight?
300
Abrasion is one form of this type of weathering.
What is physical weathering?
300
When eroded earth materials lose energy and settle, this process takes place.
What is deposition?
300
Here is an example of this type of circuit.
What is a series circuit?
300
These curved lines represent a specific elevation on a topographic map.
What are contour lines?
300
The light energy and heat energy in this flame comes MAINLY from the chemical energy stored in this.
What is wax?
300
A pill bug leaves a sunny, dry patch of soil to find a dark, moist patch of soil. The dark, moist soil is its ______________ _____________.
What is preferred environment?
400
This mineral, found in marble and limestone, reacts with vinegar to produce salt crystals and carbon dioxide.
What is calcite?
400
Erosion by water created this _________.
What is a valley?
400
Here is an example of this type of circuit.
What is a parallel circuit?
400
This side of the mountain is steeper.
What is the west side?
400
These are the three different types of consumers. They are classified by whether they eat producers or consumers.
What are herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores?
400
The permanent magnet is __________________ temporary magnetism in the nail.
What is inducing?
500
This sculpture made of limestone is vulnerable to this type of weathering.
What is chemical weathering?
500
This landform is created when eroded soils are deposited on dry land.
What is an alluvial fan?
500
The problem with this circuit is that...
What is the positive terminals are facing different directions?
(Batteries are touching positive to positive instead of positive to negative.)
500
When water freezes into ice, it is evidence that _________________ has been transferred out of the water.
What is heat energy?
500
The sound on the bottom is _____________________ than the sound on the top.
What is higher pitched?
500
A student studied brine shrimp hatching under a range of saltwater conditions. He organized his results on the graph you see here. This is the range of tolerance for hatching brine shrimp?
What is 3 to 7 spoons?