a combination of two or more substances
What is a mixture?
a body of land completely surrounded by water
What is an island?
a push or pull exerted on an object
What is a force?
all living things in an area and their habitat
the energy an object has when it is moving
What is kinetic energy?
a liquid mixture where one substance is blended evenly throughout another substance
What is a solution?
a piece of land nearly surrounded by water and attached to a larger area of land
What is a peninsula?
What is friction?
an organism that makes its own food and gets energy from the Sun
What is a producer?
70 percent of the Earth is covered in this.
What is water?
the larger amount that dissolves another substance in a solution
What is a solvent?
an area of land between hills or mountains
What is a valley?
the universal force of attraction acting between all matter that keeps the planets in orbit around the sun
What is gravity?
a chemical process where plants make their own food
What is photosynthesis?
a man-made water route that joins the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans
What is the Panama Canal?
the smaller amount that is dissolved in a solution
What is a solute?
waves that move through the oceans in response to the forces exerted by the moon and sun
What are tides?
the distance an object travels in one unit of time
What is speed?
a consumer that eats another animal for food
What is a carnivore?
the galaxy that contains our Solar System
What is The Milky Way?
liquid, solid, gas
What are the three states of matter?
a series of waves caused by earthquakes or undersea volcanic eruptions
What is a tsunami?
speed in a given direction
What is velocity?
nonliving parts of an ecosystem (sunlight, soil, temperature)
What are abiotic factors?
What is a carnivorous plant?