Landforms
Caused by water, sand, wind, or plant growth
Weathering
The smallest unit of matter
Atom
An animal without a backbone
Invertebrate
A living thing
Organism
All living and nonliving things that surround and affect organisms
Environment
Forms at the mouth of a river
Delta
A change that does not result in a new substance
Physical Change
An animal with a backbone
Vertebrate
Controls all of the activity within the cell
Nucleus
Threadlike structure in a cell nucleus
Chromosome
A break in the Earth's crust
Fault
Two or more substances that are combined without being changed
Mixture
The process of grouping similar things together
Classification
Stores food, water, and waste
Vacuole
Stages that living things pass through as they grow and change
Life cycle
All the kinds of landforms in a certain place
Topography
A change that results in one or more new substances.
Chemical Change
Vascular tissue that carries food from the leaves to the other parts of a plant
Phloem
Breaks down food and turns it into energy
Mitochondria
A characteristic that appears when there is one gene present for it
Dominant Trait
A seismologist uses this to measure the movement of faults during an earthquake
GPS technology
A property that involves the ability of a substance to react with other materials to form new substances
Chemical Property
A flowering plant whose seeds are surrounded by fruit
Angiosperm
What are two main differences between a plant cell and an animal cell?
Plant cell has a cell wall and can make it's own food (chloroplast with chlorophyll)
Creates new skin underneath sunburns and then the dead skin peels off
Mitosis