Ecosystems
Water Cycle
Severe Weather
Earth Changes
Rocks and Minerals
100
The primary source of energy for all organisms.
What is sunlight?
100
The changing of liquid water to water vapor.
What is condensation?
100
thunderstorms, hurricanes, blizzards or tornadoes
What is severe weather?
100
Most often occurs at fault lines near plate boundaries.
What is an earthquake?
100
Hardness, luster, streak and color.
What are the properties of minerals?
200
makes its own food
What are plants?
200
Water that falls from the clouds as rain, sleet, snow or hail.
What is precipitation?
200
Layers of wind blowing at different directions at different speeds.
What is a tornado?
200
A slow process that reduces rocks into smaller pieces of rock.
What is weathering?
200
The way light is reflected by a mineral.
What is luster?
300
All the living and non living things in an area.
What is an ecosystem?
300
When ice changes into water vapor without melting first.
What is sublimation?
300
Is called a tornado when it touches the ground.
What is a funnel cloud?
300
Breaks rocks by force due to gravity, ice , or plant roots.
What is mechanical weathering?
300
When hot melted rock cools and hardens.
What is an igneous rock?
400
A group of organisms of one species that live in an area at the same time.
What is a population?
400
Frozen raindrops
What is sleet?
400
Gets energy from warm ocean water.
What is a hurricane?
400
Raindrops that have carbonic acid that help dissolve rocks.
What is chemical weathering?
400
Is made from rock materials settle on top of each other and pressed together.
What is a sedimentary rock?
500
Place where an organism lives that is made up of soil, air, water, and plants.
What is a habitat?
500
Factors that affect evaporation and condensation.
What is sunlight, temperature and wind?
500
Can last for days producing heavy rains and floods.
What is a hurricane?
500
The main cause of erosion.
What is gravity?
500
The mineral composition is changed from heat and pressure.
What is a metamorphic rock?
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