Weather and Climate
This weather event develops over warm ocean water and has strong rotating winds.
What is a hurricane?
When forces acting on an object are not equal, the forces are described as this
What are unbalanced forces?
The correct order from smallest to largest in the human body is cell, tissue, organ, and this
What is an organ system?
In a controlled experiment, scientists should change only this many variables at a time
What is one?
Soil washing away during a flood is an example of this process
What is erosion?
Fungi are different from plants because fungi are this type of orgamism
what is heterotrophic?
This body system works with the muscular system to help the body maintain homeostasis when a person shivers from being cold
what is the nervous system?
Heat from the Sun reaches Earth through this method of heat transfer
What is radiation?
The slope of a distance- time graph represents this characteristic
What is speed?
what is Plantae?
In Ricardo's boiling water experiment , the beaker with no salt was called this
What is control?
Dissolving limestone in Florida can lead to the formation of this
what is a sink hole?
Beetles in the same genus share similar characteristics and the same this
What is genus name?
The ozone layer protects Earth by absorbing this
What is harmful energy/ultraviolet radiation from the Sun?
This force causes a thrown ball to return to Earth
What is Gravity?
This structure controls what enters and leaves the cell
What is the cell membrane?
A scientific law describes what scientists expect to happen under these conditions.
What are given/ set conditions?
Weathering that changes the mineral composition of rocks is called this
what is chemical weathering?
The jet stream generally moves across the United States in this direction
what is west to east?
Long-Term averages of temperature and precipitation describe this
What is climate?
As a sled moves downhill, this type of energy increases
what is kinetic energy?
The nucleus stores this important material
What is genetic material/ DNA?
After collecting data, scientists often create this to help interpret results
What is a graph?
Plants and animals interacting with the air is an example of interaction between the biosphere and this sphere
What is the atmosphere?
During exercise, breathing rate increases to help maintain this stable internal condition.
what is homeostasis?
Warm ocean currents like the Gulf Stream make nearby cities near the Artic Circle feel this way
What is warmer than expected?
Wrapping copper wire around a screwdriver and attaching it to a battery creates this force that attracts steel
what is magnetic force?
According to cell theory, all cells come from these
What are existing cells?
The variable intentionally changed by the scientist is called this
What is the independent variable?
Heat moving through air currents in the atmosphere is called this
what is convection?
The respiratory system performs this important function.
What is exchanging gases with the environment?