Water Distribution/Quality
Most of the water on Earth is this type of water.
saltwater
A sequence of living things in which each one feeds on the living thing below it.
What is a food chain?
Everything within a living thing that work together to help it survive.
What are body systems?
A sudden, violent shaking of the ground caused by movement of giant plates in the earth's crust.
What is an earthquake?
It’s the process of moving things from one place to another.
What is erosion?
When one object runs into another
What is a collision?
3% of the world's water is made up of this.
What is freshwater?
If you had a zebra, a lion, grass, and mushrooms. What order would they be in as a food chain?
grass -> zebra -> lion -> mushrooms
The number of times your heart beats each minute.
What is a heart rate?
A huge ocean wave caused by a disturbance in the ocean floor. Usually caused by an underwater earthquake.
What is a tsunami?
The process by which earth’s surface is broken down into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
Energy being moved from place to place.
What is energy transfer?
What two spheres of the Earth interact to create rain?
Hydrosphere and Atmosphere
An animal found at the top of a food web and is not eaten by any other animals
What is an apex predator?
Made up of all your muscles, it helps us perform actions.
What is a muscular system?
An opening on Earth's surface that allows molten rock, called magma, to escape from inside the earth.
What is a volcano?
A five-thousand-foot-deep carving in rock located in Arizona
What is the Grand Canyon?
The energy that has to due with movement.
What is motion energy or kinetic energy?
What process takes liquid water and turns it into water vapor (gas)?
Evaporation
A living thing (almost always a plant) that takes energy from the sun and make its own food.
What is a producer?
The major controlling and communicating system in our bodies.
What is the nervous system?
Molten rock inside the earth.
What is magma?
A slowly moving mass of ice formed by the buildup of snow. (Not an iceberg)
What is a glacier?
These STORE energy and convert it to electric energy.
What are batteries?
A type of plant the grows in water.
What is algae?
In a food web, worms, bacteria, and fungi are all considered these.
What are decomposers?
Provide living things with energy and building blocks to grow.
What are nutrients?
Large, moving slabs of rock that make up the planets outer layer.
What are Earth's plates?
A large amount of mud mixed with water that slides down a mountain due to gravity.
What is a mudslide?
This converts mechanical energy into electric energy.
What is a generator?