Atoms
Everything in the universe is made of this
What is an atom?
Cutting wood
What is a physical change?
An energy source that is easily replenished repeatedly, over a short span of time
What is a renewable resource?
What is weathering
The source of energy that is used to start photosynthesis
What is sunlight?
The positively charged subatomic particle
What is a proton?
Burning wood
What is a chemical change?
A resource that is depleted and not replenished easily within a short span of time.
What is a nonrenewable resource?
What is erosion?
The two things that a plant makes after photosynthesis
What are oxygen and glucose (sugar)?
The subatomic particle with no charge
What is the neutron?
Digestion
What is a chemical change?
Which renewable resource uses heat from the earth in order to generate electricity?
What is geothermal energy?
The name of the theory stating that our earth's crust is made of plates that are able to move around
What is continental drift?
The two things that enter a plant for photosynthesis
What are carbon dioxide and water?
The number of this particle determines the type of element
What are protons?
Fog in the morning appearing
Physical change
A type of renewable energy that we use here in Meriden, at Hanover Pond
What is hydropower?
The kind of rock formed from magma or lava cooling down
What is igneous rock?
The holes in plants that allow for gas exchange (where gases leave and enter)
What are the stomata?
Atomic mass is determined by adding these two subatomic particle counts together.
What is protons and neutrons?
Cooking an egg
What is a chemical change?
The term for the amount of carbon a person releases into the atmosphere, measured.
What is a carbon footprint?
The man responsible for the theory of continental drift
Who is Alfred Wegener?
The location/structure where photosynthesis occurs in the cell
What is the chloroplast?