Matter Matters
This is anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
The process plants use to covert sunlight into food.
What is photosynthesis?
The process that both plants and animals do to make energy.
What is cellular respiration?
A material that comes directly from nature.
What is a natural material?
This is the starting substance in a chemical reaction.
What is a reactant?
The smallest unit of an element.
What is an atom?
An organism that breaks down dead matter.
What is a decomposer?
Energy stored in food and batteries.
What is chemical energy?
A man made material created using natural resources.
What is a synthetic material?
The new substance formed in a chemical reaction.
What is a product?
A change that doesn’t create a new substance.
What is a physical change?
The arrows in a food chain show this.
What is the flow of energy?
The energy of motion.
What is kinetic energy?
Plastic is an example of this type of material.
What is a synthetic material?
Bubbles, color change, or temperature change are signs of this.
What is a chemical reaction?
The type of change when iron rusts or wood burns.
What is a chemical change?
The level in an energy pyramid gets the least energy.
What is the tertiary consumer OR Apex predator?
The force that slows down motion between surfaces.
What is friction?
This type of resource can be used to create synthetic rubber.
What is petroleum?
This type of reaction releases heat.
What is an exothermic reaction?
This law states that mass is not created or destroyed during a chemical reaction.
What is the Law of Conservation of Mass?
These organisms make their own food using sunlight.
What are producers?
A ball stopped at the top of a hill.
What is potential energy?
Glass comes from this natural source.
What is sand?
The total number of atoms before and after a reaction must be this.
What is the same (conserved)?