Ecosystems
The area where all living and nonliving parts of communities in the same area interact is called
What is the ecosystem
The amount of matter that makes up an object
What is mass
The state of atmosphere at a certain time and place.
What is the weather
What type of extreme weather events affect the ecosystem?
Wha is hurricanes, tornados, and thunderstorms
A diagram of several connected food chains
What is food web
Virginia has many natural resources. Name six
What is minerals, plants, animals, water, soil and land
Mom made toast in the toaster for breakfast. How is energy transformed
What is electrical to thermal
Some organisms must get energy by eating other organisms.
What is consumers
Motion is described as an object's
What is direction and speed
is the average weather conditions in an area over a long period of time, 30 plus years
what is climate
What are the parts of the plant
What is flower, leaves, stem, and roots
Include all the non-living things in an ecosystem.
What is light, temperature, soil, sun, rocks, weather, and the environment
What is the disadvantage of using fossil fuels to run cars?
what is the cars put toxic fumes in the air by burning fossil fuels
A boy placed a solar panel of his/her car and watched it zoom down the road. How was energy transformed
What is radiant energy to mechanical energy
Are organisms that use the Sun's energy to make their own food (all plants).
What are producers
What is a habitat
What is the place where an a animal or plant naturally lives.
A large body of air that has the same temperature and level of humidity throughout
What is air mass
For populations of plants to survive, they must be able to
What is reproduce
The process in which earth materials are broken down by wind, ice, water or gravity. If Mt. Rushmore had a crack in it. What are the affects
What is the process of weathering, erosion, and deposition that changes the surfaces of the Earth.
Name the three types of plate boundaries.
What is convergent boundary, transform boundary, and divergent boundary
A simple circuit consists of:
What is a bulb, battery, and wire
Animals that eat both plants and other animals.
What is a omnivore
This force is constantly acting on us and is 'holding us down'
What is gravity
A cold air mass moves under a warm mass & pushes the warm air upward.
What is cold front
Natural resources are
What is naturally occurring material (made from nature
Name the two types of adaptations
What is structural and behavioral
Earth is tilted on an imaginary axis as it revolves around the sun. This is called
This is axial tilt (23.5%)
Closed circuit allows
electricity to flow
Is the role each animal has. Sometimes different populations occupy the same area and must compete for resources like food, water, and shelter. Usually the weaker population will die and move to a new area.
What is niche
The process that best explains how mountain ranges are worn down over time.
A asteroid impacts
B volcanic eruptions
C weathering and erosion
D continental drift and seafloor spreading
What is weathering and erosion
Occurs when a warm air mass and a cold air mass meet and neither front moves
What is stationary front
What are man-made resources?
What are made by humans rather than occurring in nature
A change to an object that creates a different substance
What is a chemical change
The moon _____ around Earth once every 28 days (about one month)
What is revolves
What does a switch do
What is a device that opens or closed a circuit and it must be a conductor.
A ________ exists in populations, communities, and ecosystems.
What is interrelationships
A force is a push or a pull that causes an object to
What is move, stop, or change speed or direction.
Weather is forecasted how many days
What is 3-10 days
During the process of photosynthesis, plants trap the sun's energy and use it to produce what
What is sugar and oxygen
Coal is a solid sedimentary rock formed from ancient
What is plants
Name 3 facts about the sun
What is a average-sized yellow star, 110 times the diameter of Earth and about 4.6 billion years old
Sound is a form of mechanical energy produced and transmitted by
What is vibrating matter.
Changes may occur many times in an organism's
What is niche
Kinetic energy is the energy of
What is motion
What is the advantage of using solar energy on a house
What is the over all cost of the electricity will be reduced, the attic will be cooler, and you will use less fossil fuels.
Plants produce food by taking in what
What is sun, carbon dioxide, water and nutrients
A nonrenewable resource is a recourse that ______ be replaced as quickly as it is used.
What is cannot
Name the planets from smallest to largest
What is Mercury, Mars, Venus, Earth, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter
In sound waves, energy is transferred through
What is vibration of particles.
A ______ is a classification tool.
What is dichotomous key
Change in motion are related to
What is net force and mass
Clouds can help forecasters predict weather. What are the four types of clouds
What is cumulus, stratus, cumulonimbus, and cirrus.
What are Virginia's 5 mineral resources?
What is Coal, Limestone, Granite, Sand, and Gravel
Gravel and wood used for
What is construction purposes like making driveways and road and building houses
If you are ask to analyze the physical characteristics of the ocean environment, what would they be
What is waves, tides, currents, saltiness
Higher sound waves equates to
What is louder sounds
What shows all the food chains in an ecosystem
What is food web
What is a force that opposes motion
What is friction
When does the following extreme weather conditions most often happen in Virginia; Thunderstorms, Hurricane, and Tornados
What is Thunderstorms- spring and fall; Hurricanes- summer and fall; and Tornados- spring and summer.
Explain the statement, "We all live down stream." Include a real-life example that demonstrates this idea.
What is humans or business pollutioning
Virginia has three major watersheds. The largest covers approximately half of Virginia's land area and includes Virginia's four major rivers. What is the name of this water shed?
What is Chesapeake Bay watershed
Sedimentary rocks are formed by________ and _______
What is erosion and deposition
What words are used to describe pitches
What is high or low