Ecosystems
What is a habitat?
The place where an organism lives and finds food,water, and shelter
What is a solid?
This state of matter has a definite shape and volume
What is the sun?
This is the center at our solar system.
What is snow?
This form of precipitation falls as frozen water crystals form clouds
What is a ecosystem?
System formed by living things and their environment interacting
What is evaporation?
This process turns a liquid into a gas at the surface when temperature rises
What is one year about 365 days?
Earth orbits the sun once in this amount of time
What is a thermometer?
A tool meteorologists use to measure air temperature
Name one producer in an ecosystem
Plant that makes its own food
What are homogeneous mixture and a heterogeneous mixture
Mess two types of mixture can be separated by physical means:one is throughout, the other has visibly different parts
What is gravity?
This force pulls objects towards the center of planets and keep planets in orbit around stars
What are cumulus clouds?
This type of clouds is fluffy and usually means fair weather
What do decomposers do?
Break down dead organisms and recycle nutrients
What is density?
This property describe how much mass is packed into a given volume ( mass divided by volume)
What are asteroids(or the asteroid belt?)
These are chunks of rock and metal that orbit the sun,mostly found in belt between Mars and jupiter
What is the Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale
This scale estimates the strength of tornadoes based on damage cause
why is biodiversity important?
It help ecosystems stay healthy and resilient
What are reactants and products?
Tina chemical reaction,there are substances that stat the reaction and these are formed by the reaction
What is a galaxy?
This term describes a system of billions at stars,gas, and dust bound together by gravity our solar system is inside one called the milky way
What is a cold front (or frontal lifting causing thunderstorms)?
When a warm air mass meets a cold air mass and the warm air rises rapidly this often forms and may cause storms