Forces and Motion
The location of an object
What is position?
An area made of living and non living things
What is Ecosystem?
A quality or characteristic of a living thing
What is a trait?
The movement between earth's surface and the atmosphere; driven by the sun's energy
What is the water cycle?
The condition of the atmosphere at a certain time and place.
What is weather?
The length of a line between two points.
What is distance?
Living things that get energy by eating
What are consumers?
How a living thing responds to its surroundings
What is behavior?
A change in which no new materials form; happens when one or more physical properties are changed
What is physical change?
Measures precipitation (rain, sleet, hail, snow)
What is a rain gauge?
A measure of how far an object moves in a certain amount of time; date/time
What is speed?
Consumer that only eats plants
Consumer that eats plants and animals
Consumer that eats only animals
What is a herbivore?
What is an omnivore?
What is a carnivore?
The basic building blocks of living organisms-they can carry out all process necessary for life
What are cells?
A change in which one or more types of new matter form
What is chemical change?
Cold air mass bumps against a warm air mass, bringing strong storms causing a drop in temperature
What is a cold front?
Anything that has mass and takes up space
What is matter?
Living things that make their their own food.
ex: grasses, plants, shrubs and trees
What are producers?
Groups of body parts that work together to carry out all the body's functions
What is human body systems?
A feature of matter that can be observed or measured
What is physical property?
A warm air mass meets a colder air mass and rises over it; often brings rain, stratus clouds and increase in temperature.
What is a warm front?
Any object that is not moving can be used to describe the position of another object.
What is reference point?
A model that shows how the amount of energy changes as energy moves through a food chain or a food web
What is an energy pyramid?
Controls all body systems by transmitting electrical messages from the brain to other parts of the body; involves the brain, spinal cord, and nerve cells
What is the nervous system?
Matter made up of 2 or more materials; objects are mixed but nothing new forms
What is mixture?
low, sheetlike clouds that sometimes bring rain
puffy, fair-weather clouds
large thunderhead clouds that bring thunder storms
wispy high level clouds that are associated with fair weather and approaching rain.
What are stratus, cumulus , cumulonimbus and cirrus clouds? (in proper order)