Earth Science
What is the day-to-day conditions of the atmosphere called?
Weather
What factor do we call the non-living part of the ecosystem?
Abiotic
What do we call the measure of the amount of matter in an object?
Mass
What is a front where warm air moves in over a cold air mass?
A warm front
What system contains the heart, veins, and moves blood and waste through out our body system?
Circulatory
What is the layer of gases surrounding the Earth called?
Atmosphere
What is an animal that eats other animals or a meat eating animal called?
Carnivore
What is a change in velocity with respect to time?
Acceleration
What do we call water in the form of a gas?
Water Vapor
What system send messages through out our body and talks to all the other systems?
Nervous
What is the force of air pressing down on Earth called?
Air Pressure
What is the relationship between two kinds of organisms where one benefits without harming the other. (the other is just there)
Commensalism
What is a force that opposes the motion of one object moving past another? (slows it down)
Friction
Sea Breeze
What do we call characteristics passed from parents to offspring through genes?
Inherited Trait
What is the continuous movement of water on Earth called?
The Water Cycle
What biome has many different kinds of trees that lose there leaves in Autumn?
Deciduous Forest
What is the force of attraction between any two objects due to their mass?
Gravity
Precipitation
What is a distinguishing feature or quality of an organism called?
A characteristic
What is water vapor that cools and turns into liquid called?
Condensation
What do we call wind or water that moves broken pieces of rocks?
Erosion
What do we call the tendency of moving objects to keep moving in a straight line or of any object to resist a change in motion?
Inertia
What do we call a large swirling storm with low pressure at the center?
A Hurricane
What do we call the surroundings and conditions in which organisms live?
Environment
What do we call liquid water that changes into water vapor (gas) ?
Evaporation
What do we call small pieces of rock or soil?
What do we call the simple machine made of a rigid bar and fixed pivot point called the fulcrum?
A Lever
What do we call the boundary between air masses with different temperatures?
A Front
What is the passing of traits from parents to offspring called?
Heredity
What do we call the land area in Earth's system?
Geosphere
What do we call the interactions of all the living and non-living things in an environment ?
Ecosystem
What is a force with the an object responds to an action called? (as in Newton's third law of Motion)
A Reaction
What is a front where cold air moves under a warm air mass?
Cold Front
What is a characteristic that is developed from experience or environment; not passed to offspring, called?
Acquired Trait
What do we call the areas with all the water on Earth?
Hydrosphere
What is the path of energy in food from one organism to another called?
The food chain
What do we call how fast an object's change in position with time at a given moment ?
Speed
What do we call one of Earth's large Ecosystems with itw own kind of climate, soil, plants, and animals?
A Biome
What is the behavior that is developed through experience, teaching or practice called?
Learned Behavior
What do we call the system of living things on Earth?
Biosphere
What do we call a species that has died out completely?
Extinct
What force does not cancel each other out when acting together on a single object?
Unbalanced Force
What do we call the floor of an ocean, that contains mountains, valleys, and plains?
Basin
What is the behavior of an organism who is born knowing how to do something called?
Instinct
What tool do we use to measure air pressure?
Barometer
What biome is a cool forest of conifers located in the Upper Northern Hemisphere?
Taiga
What do we call the speed and direction of a moving object?
Velocity
What measures wind speed?
Anemometer
What do we call the differences in traits among individuals of the same species ?
Variation