Laws of Motion
This force pulls objects toward Earth.
What is Gravity?
Matter cannot be created or destroyed.
What is the Law of Conservation?
The force that keeps planets in orbit around the sun.
What is gravity?
Short-term atmospheric conditions.
What is weather?
Organisms that make their own food.
What are producers?
An object at rest stays at rest unless acted on by this.
What is an unbalanced force?
Reactants are found on this side of a chemical equation.
What is the left side?
The star at the center of our solar system.
What is the Sun?
Long-term average weather patterns.
What is climate?
Organisms that eat other organisms.
What are consumers?
Force = mass × ?
What is acceleration?
Balancing equations ensures this stays the same.
What is mass/number of atoms?
The stage of a star after it runs out of hydrogen.
What is a red giant?
Warm ocean water fuels this type of storm.
What is a Hurricane?
Organisms that break down dead matter.
What are decomposers?
If mass increases but force stays the same, acceleration does what?
Decreases
What is the coefficient in: 2H₂ + O₂ → 2H₂O?
What is 2?
Diagram used to classify stars by brightness and temperature.
What is the H-R Diagram?
The bending of wind due to Earth’s rotation.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
What happens to energy as it moves up a food chain?
What is it decreases?
“For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.”
What is Newton's Third Law?
Reaction where two substances combine into one.
What is synthesis?
Theory that the universe began with a rapid expansion.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
El Niño causes wetter conditions in this part of the U.S.
What is the southern U.S.?
Effect of removing a predator from a food web.
What is population imbalance (prey increases, ecosystem disrupted, Etc.)?