Earth and Space
Large pieces of Earth's crust that move and interact with each other to create landforms
What are tectonic plates?
The term for plants producing sugar and oxygen from water and carbon dioxide.
What is photosynthesis?
The name for an organism that can produce its own food.
What is a producer?
The smallest unit of matter.
What is an atom?
What are potential, kinetic, geothermal, thermal, light, sound, vibration, rotational, chemical, mechanical, etc.?
A type of tectonic boundary where two plates move toward each other
What is a convergent boundary?
The state of matter in which molecules are tightly packed in rigid structures.
What is a solid?
The amount of energy an organism gets from its food.
The subatomic particle that carries a negative charge
What is an electron?
Body parts that land animals have developed to help climb trees and rocks.
What are claws, tails, fingers, etc.?
A type of tectonic boundary where two plates move away from each other
What is a divergent boundary?
The step in the water cycle that can have water as either solid OR liquid
What is precipitation?
The term for a species that is so important to an ecosystem that the ecosystem would collapse without it.
What is a keystone species
A property of matter that describes something's ability to dissolve in water.
What is solubility?
The part of a plant that absorbs sunlight and carbon dioxide for photosynthesis.
What are leaves?
The exact degree of Earth's tilted axis
What is 23.5?
The step in the water cycle that picks up ground pollution and brings it to bodies of water.
What is runoff?
The name for an organism that can recycle dead matter to enrich the soil.
What is a decomposer?
A property of matter that does not change no matter what sample of the same substance you have. (There are multiple right answers).
What is density, solubility, hardness, magneticity, reflectivity, thermal and electrical conductivity, etc.?
The layer of rock that can be identified as the oldest in a sample?
What is the bottom layer?
The season people in the Southern Hemisphere will have if we have Summer in the North.
What is Winter?
The percentage of Earth's freshwater found in glaciers.
What is 68-69%?
Three things that are important for good classroom composter.
What are holes to allow air flow, moist soil, food scraps, a dark environment, paper scraps, etc?
The volume of a rectangular prism sample with a length of 3 cm, a width of 4 cm, and a height of 2 cm.
What is 24 cm3?
The names of Mr. Sheridan's dogs.
What are Morpheus and Kovu?