Earth Science
The process by which liquid water turns into a gas called water vapor.
What is evaporation?
This process could cause rivers to get wider and beaches to get smaller.
What is erosion?
This is a characteristic that is passed down from parents to their offspring, such as body covering or eye color.
What is an inherited trait?
The three states of matter.
What are liquid, gas, and solid?
An organism that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
In this process, the condensed water in the air will eventually fall to earth as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation?
The areas earthquakes most commonly take place near.
What are faults?
The process where plants use the sun's energy to change water and carbon dioxide into sugar.
What is photosynthesis?
In which state of matter are the particles packed together in a tight pattern?
What is a solid?
When a solid reaches its melting point, it becomes this.
What is a liquid?
This is an instrument used to measure an earthquake.
What is a seismograph?
The substance that flows from a volcano.
What is lava?
All the living and nonliving things, that interact with each other in an environment, make up one of these.
What is an ecosystem?
A force that works against motion.
What is friction?
A machine that you apply just one force to is a ______________.
What is a simple machine?
97% of the world's water is undrinkable and is found here.
Where are the world's oceans?
A huge ocean wave caused by an earthquake in the ocean floor.
What is a tsunami?
A living thing that can make its own food.
What is a producer?
A push or pull that causes a change in motion.
What is a force?
This word is used to describe the non-living parts of an environment?
What is abiotic?
The global recycling of water by nature--that is, the way water changes its form and moves from the earth's surface to the air and then back to the surface.
What is the Water Cycle?
This geographical feature is formed by water erosion.
What is a canyon?
Organisms that survive by breaking down dead organisms or waste produced by living things.
What are decomposers?
When objects in the universe pull on one another.
What is gravitational force?
The largest organ in the human body.
What is the skin?