Life Cycles
The particular way a living thing grows, reproduces, and dies.
What is a life cycle?
A naturally occurring solid; when two or more are combined, can form a rock; some minerals are used for human growth and development.
What is a mineral?
The breakdown of rocks into very small particles by gravity, water, wind, and ice.
What is weathering?
An organism that uses sunlight to make its own food for energy.
What is a producer?
Behavior that is acquired through experience.
What is a learned behavior?
Type of development consisting of four distinct stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult
What is Complete metamorphosis?
Rock formed when particles of other rocks are deposited in layers and are compacted (crushed together) and cemented.
What is sedimentary rock?
A mixture of minerals and organic material that covers much of Earth’s surface.
What is soil?
What is needed to do work or cause change>
What is energy?
Behavior that you were born with and did not have to learn.
What is an instinct?
Type of development consisting of three stages: egg, nymph, and adult.
What is incomplete metamorphosis?
Rock formed when lava or magma cools, forms crystals, and solidifies.
What is igneous rock?
The removal and movement of sediment from one place to another by gravity, water, wind, or ice
What is erosion?
An organism that gets energy from eating plants or animals.
What is a consumer?
A single characteristic of a living thing.
What is a trait?
Develops from an egg and is a separate life stage from the adult reproductive stage. Examples include tadpoles and caterpillars.
What is a larva?
Rock formed deep underground where heat and pressure cause existing rocks to be changed in both mineral composition and structural characteristics
What is metamorphic rock?
A feature on the surface of the Earth such as a mountain, hill, dune, ocean, or river.
What is a landform?
An interconnected set of food chains.
What is a food web?
A group of organisms that are similar to one another and can combine to produce more of their kind.
What is a species?
Follows the larval stage and before adulthood in insects with complete metamorphosis.
What is a pupa?
A physical property referring to how an object shines when light reflects from its surface.
What is luster?
The buildup of land by the settlement of sediment and soil in a new location.
What is deposition?
An organism that breaks down the remains of dead plants or animals without need for internal digestion.
What is a decomposer?
The space, conditions, and all the living and nonliving things around an organism.
What is environment?