Matter & Energy
Everything that has mass and takes up space.
Matter.
A push or pull on an object.
Force.
The planet closest planet to the sun.
Mercury.
An animal with a backbone.
Vertebrae.
The process of liquid water turning into gas.
Evaporation.
The three states of matter.
Solid, Liquid, Gas.
This force causes an object to fall toward Earth.
Gravity.
The path one object takes around another in space.
Orbit.
An organism that makes its own food.
Producer.
The instrument used to measure air pressure.
Barometer.
This process is how plants use sunlight to make their own food.
Photosynthesis.
The distance and object travels divided by the time it takes.
Speed.
The slow process that breaks rocks into smaller pieces.
Weathering.
A trait passed down from parents to their offspring.
Inherited traits.
Any form of water, like rain of snow, that falls from the sky.
Precipitation.
A combination of two or more substances that can be easily separated.
A mixture.
The force that resists motion when two surfaces rub together.
Friction.
It takes Earth this long to make a complete orbit around the sun.
365 days.
An animal that eats both plants and animals.
Omnivore.
Fluffy, white clouds often seen on a sunny day.
Cumulus Clouds.
These five forms of energy are often remembered by the acronym MELTS.
Mechanical, Electrical, Light, Thermal, and Sound.
A change in an object's position.
Motion.
Gigantic slabs of rock that makes up Earth's crust.
Tectonic plates.
Organisms like fungi or bacteria that break down dead material.
Decomposers.
The process of liquid water turning into solid.
Freezing.