The Changing Earth
Energy
Circuits
Populations
The 3 Rs
100

When the plates in Earth's crust collide, they fold and get uplifted. This folding of Earth's crust leads to the forming of these tall landforms.

What are mountains?

100

This is energy that comes from the sun.

What is solar energy?


100

This is the ability to do work or cause change; the ability to move an object some distance.

What is energy?

100

This is a model that shows one set of feeding relationships among living things.

What is a food chain?

100

This is the process of turning one object into another usable object.

What is recycling?


200

This is the removal of weathered rock material. After rocks have been broken down, the small particles are transported to other locations by wind, water, ice, and gravity.

What is erosion?

200

This is a vibration that travels through a material, such as air or water; something that you sense with your hearing. 

What is sound energy?

200

This is a material that energy does not flow easily through.  

What is an insulator

200

These are plants that break down their food into simpler nutrients.

What is a decomposer

200

These are the 3 Rs.

What are reduce, reuse, and recycle?

300

This is a fan-shaped mass of mud and other sediment that forms where a river enters a large body of water.

What is a delta?

300

This is energy in the form of heat.

What is thermal energy?

300

This is a material that energy flows easily through.

What is a conductor?

300

This is an animal that hunts and eats another animal.

What is a predator?

300

This is the process of using one object for another use is called this.

What is reuse?

400

This is an opening in the Earth's surface through which magma and gases or only gases erupt.

What is a volcano?

400

This is energy that an object has because of its motion or its position.

What is mechanical energy?

400

This is the type of circuit that allows energy to flow through it.

What is a closed circuit?

400

This is an animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal.

What is prey?

400

This is the type  of resources that are gone foerver once you use them all up.

What are nonrenewable resources?

500

This is a crack in a body of rock that the rock can move along.

What is a fault?

500

This is the direction that thermal energy travels.

What is hot to cold

500

This is the type of circuit that does not allow energy to flow through it.

What is an open circuit?

500

This is the part of the plant that makes the food.

What are the leaves?

500

This is the type of resources that can be made again once you use them.

What are renewable resources?