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Force and Motion
Human Body
Weather
Ecosystems
Mixed
100
a push or pull on an object
What is a force?
100
A characteristic that a living thing gets from its parents
What is inherited trait?
100
Transfer of heat from direct contact
What is conduction?
100
Having to do with land (such as forest and grassland)
What is terrestrial?
100
Areas that have similar climate and land features with specific types of plant and animal life.
What is biome?
200
The amount of matter in an object.
What is mass?
200
A living organism composed on one cell (amoeba, paramecium)
What is unicellular?
200
Transfer of heat energy through liquids and gases
What is convection?
200
An organism that makes its own food by the process of photosynthesis.
What is a producer?
200
An inherited behavioral trait such as walking for people and hibernating for bears
What is instinct?
300
the force that resists motion between two touching surfaces, slows things down
What is friction?
300
sends and receives messages through the body (brain, nerves, and spinal cord)
What is nervous system?
300
Transfer of energy through the sun’s rays
What is radiation?
300
An organism that gets energy from recycling nutrients by breaking down decaying material.
What is a decomposer?
300
Harmful substance that has negative effects on an ecosystem
What is a pollutant?
400
changing a position over time
What is motion?
400
Muscles that work automatically (cardiac muscle, stomach muscle)
What are involuntary muscles?
400
The boundary between two different air masses (cold or warm)
What is a front?
400
Non living things such as light, air, and soil
What is abiotic?
400
Harmful substance that has negative effects on an ecosystem
What is air mass?
500
change that forms a new substance (can’t be reversed)
What is chemical change?
500
Breaks down food to be used as energy (stomach, intestines)
What is digestive system?
500
A wind pattern that blows consistently in the same direction (In the United States it is from West to East)
What is prevailing wind?
500
A model that shows how several food chains connect together.
What is food web?
500
a change in speed
What is acceleration?