Plants and Animals
An animal or plant that consumes or obtains nutrients from animals
What is a carnivore
The shaking of the ground caused by a sudden release of energy in Earth's crust
What is an earthquake?
The process by which a liquid is converted to its vapor phase by heat
What is evaporation
to exert force on an object
What is work ?
to push away
What is repel?
An organism that feeds on other organisms for food.
What is a consumer?
A type of rock that forms from the compaction and cementation of sediment layers
What is sedimentary rock?
The path water takes as it is being cycled through the environment, including condensation, evaporation, and precipitation
What is the water cycle?
A force that opposes the motion of one object moving past another
What is friction?
The study of fossils
What is paleontology?
The flow of energy as a result of feeding patterns of a series of organisms
What is a food chain?
A vent or fissure in Earth's surface through which magma and its associated materials are expelled
What is a volcano?
The conditions in Earth's lower atmosphere at a given time and place
What is weather?
a push or pull exerted by one object on another causing a change in motion
What is a force?
One of the states of matter in which the molecules do not have a fixed volume or shape
What is gas?
A chemical process by which plants trap light energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates.
What is photosynthesis?
The natural processes that break down and change rock into soil, sand, and other materials; differs from erosion in that no transport of those materials takes place.
What is weathering?
The layers of gas that surround Earth, other planets, or stars
What is atmosphere?
A tool to measure the force of gravity in Newtons
What is a spring scale?
Having the property of attracting iron and certain other materials by virtue of a surrounding field of force
What is magnetic?
An organism that makes its own food from the environment; usually a green plant
What is producer?
A resource that can only be replenished over millions of years
What is a nonrenewable resource?
The temperature and precipitation averages of over many years
What is climate?
A force of attraction between two masses
What is gravity?
A method, or series of steps
What is a process?