Ecosystems
This is a community of living things and their home.
What is an ecosystem?
What is a group of mountains called?
What is a mountain range?
We use this tool to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
This force pulls things down to the ground.
What is gravity?
It is a device that makes it easier for us to do work.
What is a machine?
This animal eats both plants and meat.
What is an omnivore?
What is a group of islands called?
What is an archipelago?
When a solid changes to a liquid, it is called this.
What is melting?
This force pulls objects toward magnets.
What is magnetism?
This machine helps us travel to other countries faster than by boat or train.
What are planes?
This type of forest has four seasons and trees that lose their leaves in autumn.
What is a temperate forest?
What is a long narrow piece of land that extends into the ocean and has got water on three sides?
What is a peninsula?
What is winter?
These forces only work if the objects touch.
What are contact forces?
A machine with two or more simple machines working together.
What is a complex machine?
This part of an ecosystem includes non-living things like water and soil.
What is the abiotic environment?/ What are abiotic factors?
This type of map uses different colors to show how high or low land is.
What is a relief map?
This is the temperature at which water freezes.
What is 0°C (or 32°F)?
This happens when the north pole on this magnet pulls the south pole of the other magnet towards it.
What is attraction?
A simple machine with a flat surface that is slanted.
What is an inclined plane?
Cutting down many trees in a forest is called this and can harm animals’ homes.
What is deforestation?
This rock type is changed by heat or pressure inside the Earth.
What is metamorphic rock?
What is the imaginary line around the middle of the Earth?
Who is the important British scientist that developed the theory of gravity?
Who is Isaac Newton?
This simple machine is a wheel with a rope around it used to lift things.
What is a pulley?