Space
Heat Transfer
Weather
Ecosystem
Vocabulary
100
The third planet from the sun
What is Earth?
100
Solid, liquid, and gas
What are the states of matter?
100
Water that is falling out of the sky - this could be rain, snow, sleet, or hail
What is precipitation?
100
A community of interacting organisms and their environment
What is an Ecosystem?
100
What is convection?
200
Two ways we can scale down the Solar System for a model
What is by distance and by planet size?
200
A molecule moves more, spreads out, and gets hotter because it gained...
What is energy?
200
Strong rising currents of air within the storm, called updrafts, carry water droplets to a height where they freeze
What is hail?
200
A relationship between organisms in which one species benefits while the other species is harmed
What is parasitism?
200
Quantity of mass per volume or compactness of a substance.
What is density?
300
Throughout the year, different parts of Earth receive the Sun's most direct rays causing seasons. This affect is created because of the Earth's...
What is the Earth's tilted axis?
300
The direction that energy ALWAYS transfers: ____ to _____ .
What is more to less?
300
When the invisible water vapor in the air condenses on particles in the air to form visible water droplets or ice crystals.
What is a cloud?
300
A relationship between to organisms in which both species benefit
What is mutualism?
300
A substance which does not readily allow the passage of heat, sound, or electricity
What is insulator?
400
This phenomena occurs when the Sun casts Earth's shadow onto the Moon
What is Lunar eclipse?
400
Energy that is transferred between systems or objects with different temperatures
What is heat?
400
A transition zone between two different air masses at the Earth's surface. Each air mass has unique temperature and humidity characteristics.
What is weather front?
400
An association between two or more different biological species or organisms
What is Symbiotic Relationship?
400
Non-living things in an ecosystem.
What is Abiotic?
500
What is Waxing Crescent Moon?
500
The process by which heat energy is transmitted through collisions between molecules
What is conduction?
500
After warm air above land expands and rises, what is cooler air that rushes in to take its place
What is wind?
500
Variety of life on Earth or in an ecosystem
What is biodiversity?
500
The distance between the earth to the sun that scientists use as a unit to measure in space.
What is Astronomical Unit or AU?