Earth’s Surface
Which process BUILDS up Earth’s surface
Constructive process
The layer where we live
What is the crust?
The control center of the cell
What is the nucleus?
A change that forms a new substance
What is a chemical change?
The science of grouping living things
What is taxonomy?
Which process moves soil or rock by wind, water, ice, or gravity
Erosion
The thickest Earth layer
What is the mantle?
The organelle that provides energy
What is the mitochondrion?
Name one helpful role of microorganisms
Digest food, make medicine, recycle nutrients
The largest classification level
What is domain?
Which process is responsible for forming deltas at the mouths of rivers
Deposition
The two metals found in Earth’s core
What are iron and nickel?
Found only in plant cells and helps make food?
What is the chloroplast?
Melting ice is what type of change
What is Physical chnage?
Animals without backbones are called
What are invertebrates?
Explain how tectonic plate movement can change Earth’s surface over millions of years
It can form mountains, volcanoes, and new land
Which layer causes earthquakes and volcanoes
What is the mantle?
Which organelle is known as the “clean-up crew” because it breaks down waste
What is the lysosome?
Why is rusting different from tearing paper
Rusting makes a new substance
What level of classification comes AFTER kingdom and BEFORE class
What is phylum?
What landform can form when two tectonic plates collide
Mountains
Why does the inner core stay solid even though it is very hot
Because of extreme pressure
Which organelle helps package and send materials, and why is it important
Golgi apparatus; it sends materials where they need to go
What causes disease?
Harmful microorganisms?
Why do scientists classify living things
To make them easier to study