Rocks
What is weathering and what causes it?
Weathering is the process of a rock breaking down.
Wind, water, gravity, ice, living things can break a rock
What is a vertebrate? Invertebrate?
Having a backbone.
Lacking a backbone.
What is the process of plants making their own food?
What raw materials do plants need to make this food?
Photosynthesis
Carbon Dioxide, Water, Sunlight
What are the properties (shape and volume) for a solid, liquid, and gas?
Solid - Definite shape and volume
Liquid - Definite volume and takes the shape of its contianer
Gas - No definte volume and fills a container.
What is the term used to describe creating new life?
Reproduction
What is erosion and what causes it?
Erosion carries away broken down rocks.
Wind, water, gravity, ice
Give an example of how a plant or animal adaptation helps its system fucntions to support survival?
Answers may vary
example: A cactus has a thick stem that stores water, allowing it to provide water to the plant when it is dry.
What starts the food chain, after the sun?
Producer
What are the three ways to speed up the solubility time?
Stir
Increase temperature
Smaller particle size
A grasshopper undergoes 3 stages in their life cycle. Is this an example of incompelte or complete metamorphosis?
Incomplete
Florida has 3 important nonrenewable resources. They are phosphate, limestone, and Silica. What are they each used for?
Phosphate = fertilizer
Limestone = building
Silica = solar panels/technology
The Florida Keys are a group of small islands. Human activities can have positive or negative effects on ecosystems. Which of the following human activites would most likely have a positivce effect on the Florida Keys ecosystem?
A. Cutting down/removing trees
B. Releasing nonnative animals into the wild
C. Restoring the habitats of native animals
C
What is a prey?
What is a predator?
Prey is eaten
Predator eats
How could you best seperate salt and water?
boil until the water evaporates
Nymph is wingless
Mrs. Greenlee is demonstrating how to identify properties of minerals. She sets a piece of calcite on the table and hits it with a small hammer. When the calcite breaks with smooth lines, which property has been demonstrated?
Cleavage
How can an invasive species impact an ecosystem?
It can overpopulate the area causing other species strain. This could wipe out an entire native species
There are three types of consumers:
Herbivores
Omnivores
Carnivores
What do they each eat?
Herbivore - plants only
Omnivore - both plants and animals
Carnivores - Animals only
Give an example of each of the following:
Physical Change
Chemical Change
Examples:
Physical - cutting wood
Chemical - cooking an egg
egg - caterpillar - chrysalis - butterfly
A rock originally formed from layers of sand and shells. After being buried deep underground, it became much harder and its layers began to bend. What type of rock is formed and how is it formed?
Scientists discover a new animal in the Florida Everglades. Some information about the animal is below:
Has a backbone
Is Cold-blooded
Is coverd with Scales.
What piece of information is missing that scientists would need to classify this animal as a fish rather than a reptile?
Gills/Lungs
Look at the food chain below:
Grass - beetle - raccoon - coyote
Looking at the food chain, which relationships shows a consumer to consumer relationship
Raccoon to coyote
What is the difference between mass and weight?
Mass is the amount of matter in an object and weight is the force of gravity on the object.
Draw a diagram using labels to show a complete and incomplete metamorphosis life cycle. You must label each stage in the life cycles.
Incomplete - egg - Nymph - adult
Complete - egg - Larva - Pupa - adult