Interactions and Ecosystems
These are the living parts of an ecosystem.
What are biotic factors?
The process by which a seed begins to grow.
What is geermination?
This measures the average kinetic energy of particles.
What is temperature?
This is Earth's outermost layer.
What is the crust?
A structure designed mainly to support weight through its own mass.
What is a mass structure?
An organism that breaks down dead plants and animals.
What is a decomposer?
Plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to make food through this process.
What is photosynthesis?
Matter exists in these three common states.
What are solid, liquid, and gas?
These currents in the mantle help move tectonic plates.
What are convection currents?
The force that stretches materials apart.
What is tension?
The stage of the water cycle when water vapor turns into liquid water.
What is condensation?
These plant structures absorb water and minerals from the soil.
What are roots?
Heat transfer through direct contact is called this.
What is conduction?
At this plate boundary, plates move apart.
What is a divergent boundary?
Loads that change depending on how a structure is used are called these.
What are live loads?
This type of succession occurs after a forest fire when soil is still present.
What is secondary succession?
This type of pollination occurs when insects carry pollen from flower to flower.
What is insect pollination?
Materials that do not allow heat to move through them easily are called these.
What are insulators?
This type of rock forms when sediment is compacted and cemented together.
What is sedimentary rock?
Weight changes depending on gravity, but this stays the same everywhere.
What is mass?
This process causes harmful chemicals to increase in concentration as they move up a food chain.
What is biomagnification?
This environmental problem occurs when salts build up in soil due to irrigation.
What is soil salinization?
Diffusion happens faster in this type of water because particles move more quickly.
What is warm water?
Geologists use this instrument to detect and record earthquakes.
What is a seismograph?
Concrete reinforced with steel is an example of this type of material.
What is a composite material?