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Plants use energy from the sun to make this.
What is sugar.
100
Taigas, Tundras, Rain Forests, Savannahs, Deserts, and Temperate Deciduous Forests are all examples.
What is biome.
100
Stored energy.
What is potential energy.
100
This part of the planet gets the most direct sunlight.
What is the equator.
100
This region that surrounds the Pacific Plate is where most volcanoes and earthquakes occur.
What is the Ring of Fire.
200
The remains of living things found in soil that make it rich in nutrients.
What is Humus.
200
Earth's largest land carnivore.
What is polar bear.
200
These waves don't need matter to travel through.
What are electromagnetic waves.
200
Energy from the sun travels to Earth as these type of waves.
What are electromagnetic waves.
200
Major fault that runs up and down California.
What is the San Andreas Fault.
300
These cells cover the stomata controlling the amount of carbon dioxide and water coming into and out of the leaf.
What are guard cells.
300
This part of the rainforest provides shade for the organisms below because it has a thick blanket of foliage (leaves).
What is canopy.
300
Friction makes a lot of this.
What is heat.
300
These types of currents occur in the air, ocean, and in the Earth's mantle.
What are convection currents.
300
Type of volcano made from alternation layers of lava and ash. These volcanoes are explosive when they wake up.
What is a composite volcano.
400
These are responsible for breaking down the remains of living things.
What are decomposers.
400
Desert biomes are determined by these two factors.
What is temperature and rainfall.
400
This type of matter transfers energy by direct contact.
What is a solid.
400
What part of the wave changes as you move from one end of the electromagnetic spectrum to the other.
What is the wavelength.
400
This process is when one plate slips beneath another where it becomes melted by the extrem heat of Earth's interior.
What is subduction.
500
Amoebas are an example of these protists who have a false foot.
What are pseudopods.
500
This is the driest desert on Earth.
What is the Atacama.
500
Evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
What is the water cycle.
500
The sky appears blue because the light does this in the atmosphere.
What is scatter.
500
Scientists determine the epicenter of an earthquake by studying this information given to them by a seismograph.
What is P and S wave arrival times.