Ecosystems
An organism is...
What is any living thing?
A basic force caused by moving objects away from a given point.
What is push?
The color that produces the most heat.
What is black?
A massive hot glowing ball of gas that produces light and heat.
What is a star?
Step by step process used to find answers to questions about the world around us.
What is the scientific method?
The living factors in an ecosystem
What is biotic?
A force that acts in the opposite direction of moving objects. You feel this when you run.
What is air resistance?
Using sound to locate objects.
What is echolocation?
An object that orbits something other than a star.
What is a moon?
You should only change one of these in an experiment at a time.
What is a variable?
An organism that cannot produce its own food and must eat other plants and/or animals to get energy
What is a consumer?
When multiple forces acting on an object are equal in force but opposite in direction resulting in no movement.
What is Balanced Forces?
The process that allows us to see color.
What is reflection?
A characteristic used to classify stars.
What is color, size, and brightness?
What is a hypothesis?
The process by which plants use sunlight energy to convert water and carbon dioxide into their own food
What is photosynthesis?
The tendency of liquid particles to be strongly attracted to each other.
What is surface tension?
This is why you see lightning before you hear thunder?
Light travels faster than sound.
The 8 planets in order from the sun.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
Something in an experiment that is kept the same throughout an experiment.
What is a control?
A food web is
What is a complex network of interconnected food chains, illustrating how energy flows through a ecosystem?
The formula for speed.
What is Speed=Distance/Time
When sound travels through a medium and arrives at a new medium, it can continue through the new medium changing the sound
What is refraction?
The requirements for something to be considered a planet.
What is large enough to be rounded by gravity, clear its orbital path, and revolves around the sun?
The three states of matter.
What is Solid, Liquid, and Gases.