Meteorology and Oceanography
The study of weather.
What is Meteorology?
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is Matter?
The rate at which an object moves.
What is Speed.
The process by which green plants and some other organisms use the energy of sunlight and simple chemicals to produce their own food.
What is Photosynthesis?
This is the study of living organisms.
What is Biology?
The production of visible light by living organisms.
What is bioluminescence?
Moisture falling from the atmosphere as rain, snow, or hail.
What is Precipitation?
The smallest chemical unit of matter.
What is an Atom?
The speed of an object in a given direction.
What is Velocity?
The smallest unit of life in creation.
What is the Cell?
When something consists of a single cell it is considered this.
What is Unicellular?
A close living situation between 2 species where at least one of the species benefits.
What is Symbiosis?
A force exerted onto a surface by the weight of air molecules.
What is Air pressure?
Two or more atoms linked together to make a substance with unique properties.
What is a Molecule?
A push or pull exerted on an object in an effort to change that object's velocity.
What is Force?
A method of sorting things according to shared qualities and characteristics?
What is Classification?
When something consists of more than one cell it is considered this.
What is multicellular?
The organs are for taking oxygen from water.
What are Gills?
In order to predict weather, meteorologists measure 5 properties of what?
What is air?
A substance that contains different compounds and/or elements.
What is a Mixture?
A closed path through which electric current flows.
An organism that breaks down the dead remains of other organisms.
What is a Decomposer?
True or False : viruses are living organisms?
False.
A community of organisms that interact with each other and their physical environment.
What is an Ecosystem?
From base to summit which mountain is taller : Mount Everest or Mauna Kea?
Mauna Kea
A change that affects the type of molecules or atoms in a substance.
What is a Chemical change?
A device that either multiplies or redirects a force.
What is a Simple Machine?
This criterion of life contains cytosine, guanine, thymine and adenine.
What is DNA?
Why wont antibiotics work on viruses?
Because antibiotics only work on living organisms?
A jellyfish has this type of body shape.
What is Medusa?