Plants in a Closed Terrarium (Life Science)
The process that allows plants to make their own food using sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water.
Photosynthesis
The type of energy stored in a battery.
chemical energy
This type of magnet is created when an electric current passes through a wire coil.
electromagnet
This is the smallest unit of an element that retains its chemical properties.
atom
The rigid outer layer of Earth, made up of tectonic plates.
lithosphere/geosphere
In a terrarium, this gas is released by plants during photosynthesis and is essential for animals to breathe.
Oxygen
The law stating that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred or transformed.
Law of Conservation of Energy
When a magnet moves through a coil of wire, it induces this type of energy in the wire.
electrical energy
The type of change in which atoms are rearranged to form new substances, often accompanied by energy changes.
chemical reaction
The theory that explains the movement of Earth's plates and the changes in the planet's surface over time.
plate tectonics
The continuous movement of water through the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere in a closed system is called this.
Water Cycle
The efficiency of energy transfer can be improved by reducing this.
Energy loss (or heat loss)
This term describes the force produced between two like poles of magnets when they are brought close to each other.
repulsion
The principle stating that the total number of atoms before and after a reaction remains the same, is called?
Law of Conservation of Matter
When two tectonic plates move apart, this type of boundary forms, often creating mid-ocean ridges.
divergent boundary
Something that helps to explain how energy and matter cycle in the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere within a terrarium.
System model
In a closed terrarium placed in sunlight, heat is transferred from the glass walls to the air inside by direct contact, circulates through the air causing warm air to rise and cool air to sink, and is also absorbed by plants directly from sunlight. These processes demonstrate which three types of energy transfer?
What are conduction, convection, and radiation?
The efficiency of energy transfer through magnetic fields decreases with this factor, which increases resistance to the magnetic force.
Distance
In a chemical reaction, these are the starting substances that undergo changes to form new products.
Reactants
The movement of magma within Earth's mantle that drives the motion of tectonic plates is caused by this heat transfer process.
Convection
In a closed terrarium, this process allows carbon from decaying plant material to return to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, while nitrogen is converted into forms that plants can absorb, demonstrating the interconnected cycling of these two essential elements.
decomposition and nitrification
In a closed terrarium, sunlight is converted into chemical energy by plants and then transferred through various forms as plants decompose. This demonstrates which principle that governs the transformation and movement of energy within a system?
Law of Conservation of Energy
Charged particles from the Sun interact with Earth’s magnetic field, creating this phenomenon near the poles, where energy is transferred as light emissions in the upper atmosphere.
auroras (Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis)
During photosynthesis, carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms from carbon dioxide and water are rearranged to form this molecule, which stores chemical energy for plants.
Answer: What is glucose (C₆H₁₂O₆)?
glucose
When an oceanic plate is forced under a continental plate at a convergent boundary, it forms this process, leading to deep ocean trenches and volcanic activity.
subduction