Random Compilation
What is a consumer at the top of the food chain?
What is an apex predator?
Plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from these two things.
What is Sunlight and water?
What is the shortest day of the year called?
What is the winter solstice?
Yes, any type of rock can become any type!
What do you call energy from the sun?
What are the three types of rock?
Sedimentary, igneous, metamorphic
This scientific process is how plants take matter that is not food (light, air, water, and soil) and turn it in to matter that is food.
What is photosynthesis?
Lakes, rivers, glaciers, ground water, and polar ice caps are all examples of this.
What is fresh water around the world.
Describe a sedimentary rock.
Sedimentary rocks have different layers, formed by compressing down the layers over time.
What is the breaking down of rocks?
What is Weathering?
What is the large opening that some volcanoes have called? (This is often what you see when you look at aerial pictures)
If you go far enough down the food chain, food of almost any kind of animal can be traced back to _____.
What is (Producers) plants?
Most of the Earth's water is found here.
What is the oceans? (70%)
There are three parts of soil. Sand, clay, and gravel. Which type of soil would absorb the most water after a thunderstorm?
What is Clay?
The dropping off of weathered rock at the end of erosion.
What is deposition?
Energy in animals' food that is used for body repair, growth, motion, and to maintain body warmth was once energy from this.
What is the Sun?
This process eventually restores (recycles) some materials back to the soil after a plant or animal's death.
What is decomposition?
How long does it take the moon to revolve around the Earth? How long does it take for the moon to complete its phases?
27 1/3 days, 29.5 days
What is a nonrenewable resource? Give two examples.
A nonrenewable resource is a resource that cannot be replaced in our lifetime. Examples: (Fossil Fuels) Natural Gas, Coal, Oil.
What is the instrument used to measure wind speed?
What is the difference between a structural and behavioral adaptation?
Structural is something the animal has (part of it's body), behavioral is something it does (action/behavior)
Invasive species can do this to the balance of an ecosystem.
What is damage it or throw off the balance in the food chain?
List the planets in order from smallest to largest
What is Mercury, Mars, Venus, Earth, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter
What kind of rock comes from a volcano?
What is Igneous?
What are the types of fronts? (4)
Cold front, warm front, occluded front, stationary front