Category 1: Energy Flow
Question: What is a producer?
Answer: The organism that makes its own food using sunlight.
Question: What is photosynthesis?
Answer: Plants use this process to take in carbon dioxide and produce oxygen
Question: What is a force?
Answer: The push or pull that can change an object's motion
Question: What is gravity?
Answer: The force that pulls objects toward Earth’s center.
The smallest unit of life is called
A Cell
Question: What is the percentage of energy that is transferred to the next trophic level in a energy pyramid?
Answer: Only about 10% of energy moves from one trophic level to the next in this model
Question: What is cellular respiration?
Answer: The process where organisms release carbon dioxide while breaking down food for energy
Question: What is Newton’s First Law of Motion?
Answer: An object at rest stays at rest unless acted on by a force
The ___is the center of our solar system
The Sun
Question: What is a tissue?
Answer: A group of similar cells working together.
Question: What is a primary consumer?
Answer: This type of consumer eats producers such as plants or algae.
Question: What is condensation?
Answer: Water vapor cooling to form clouds.
When two forces are equal & have a net force of zero it is called
Balanced Force
A type of plate boundary where two tectonic plates collide and one plate may move beneath the other is called
Convergent Boundary
Question: What are organs?
Answer: Structures made of different tissues that perform specific functions
Question: What is a food web?
Answer: A diagram that shows multiple feeding relationships in an ecosystem.
Question: What is nitrogen fixation?
Answer: Bacteria convert nitrogen gas into usable forms during this process
What causes the different seasons?
Answer: The rotation of Earth around the Sun causes this.
A location where magma rises from deep within Earth’s mantle and creates volcanoes away from plate boundaries
Hot Spot
Question: What is asexual reproduction?
Answer: Reproduction involving one parent that produces identical offspring.
Question: What are decomposers?
Answer: Organisms that break down dead matter and recycle nutrients.
Question: What is the water cycle?
Answer: The continuous movement of water through evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
The movement of Earth’s tectonic plates can cause these sudden ground movements are called
earthquakes
True or False: Pluto is considered a planet
False. Pluto is a dwarf planet
Question: What is sexual reproduction?
Answer: Reproduction involving two parents that increases genetic diversity