Life Science
The process by which plants make their own food using sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
The force that pulls objects toward the center of the Earth
What is gravity?
The state of matter with a definite shape and volume
What is a solid?
what is the largest star in our solar system
The sun
This is a meat eater
What is a carnivore?
The living, or once living, things in an ecosystem
Biotic factors
the body's ability to sustain a stable internal enviroment
What is Homeostasis
This is the basic unit from which all matter is made
What is the atom?
What galaxy are we in
Milky way
A species that is not native to an area that does not belong there and is affecting the enviorment is
Invasive species
This is the term for an organism that makes it's own food
What is an autotroph?
These types of resources are always available or naturally replenished in a short time period.
This term is defined as the internal stored energy of an object
What is potential energy?
dark spots on the sun that are colder than the rest of the surface area are known as
Sunspots
what species can tell you what is going on in the environment
Indicator species
The genetic material found in the nucleus of a cell
What is DNA?
This type of change in matter produces one or more new substances
What is a chemical change?
Name all the planets in our solar system (in order)
mercury venus earth mars jupiter saturn uranus neptune
encompasses its role and position within an ecosystem, including how it obtains resources, interacts with other species, and contributes to the environment
what is a Niche
This type of symbiotic relationship is one in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped or harmed
What is commensalism?
What is the boundary formed when two tectonic plates collide
convergent plate boundry
This is the term for the change of state from a solid to a gas
what holds all the planets in orbit and keeps them from colliding
The sun's gravity
This is the study of the interactions among organisms and their environment
What is ecology?