ENERGY
4.PS3.1–3.3
4.PS3.1–3.3
This is the energy of motion.
What is kinetic energy?
All the living and nonliving things in an area make up this.
What is an ecosystem?
Light bouncing off an object is called this.
What is reflection?
When plates push together, they form these tall landforms.
What are mountains?
Fossils are preserved remains or traces of this.
What are plants or animals (organisms).
Stored energy in food or batteries is called this
What is potential energy?
Plants that make their own food are called this.
What are producers?
When light passes through a prism and spreads into colors, this happens.
What is refract or bend?
This area around the Pacific Ocean has many volcanoes and earthquakes because of active tectonic plate boundaries.
What is the ring of fire?
Layers of rock formed over time are called this.
What is strata?
This type of energy is felt as warmth.
What is thermal energy?
Animals that eat plants are called this.
What are herbivores?
This type of wave is used to send signals to radios and TVs.
What are radio waves?
Mid-ocean ridges form when tectonic plates..
What is pull apart?
Each rock layer tells a story about Earth’s this.
What is history?
When you turn on a lamp, electrical energy changes into these two forms.
What are light and thermal energy?
A diagram showing who eats who in an ecosystem is called this.
What is a food web?
Waves transfer this from place to place.
This landform is formed when magma reaches Earth’s surface.
What is a volcanoe?
Fossils found in lower rock layers are usually?
What is older?
A toaster changes electrical energy into this form used to cook food.
What is thermal (heat) energy?
When nature regrows after a fire or flood, it is called this.
A person’s voice travels through air as this type of wave.
What is a sound wave?
A steep hill with a small, flat top is called a?
What us a butte?
Fossils that are only found in certain rock layers and help scientists tell the age of rocks are called these
What is an index fossil?