Ecosystem
What is a Consumer?
A living thing that consumes other plants and animals to get their energy.
What are the male parts of the flower?
Anther and Filament
What is the only planet with life?
Earth
How are sound and light waves alike?
They both carry energy
What has the greatest density, Inner core, Outer core, Mantle or crust?
Inner core
What abiotic factor does every food web begin with?
Sun
What are the female part of the flower?
Stigma, Style, Ovary
What planet is the closets to the sun?
Mercury
What is scattering?
An interaction of light with matter that causes light to change in all directions.
Order the earth layers from least dense to most dense.
Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core
What are omnivores?
Omnivores are animals that eat consumers and producers.
Which part of the flower, "Protects" the flower?
Sepal
Why do we experience seasons?
Because of the tilt on earths axis.
What part of the electromagnetic spectrum can we see?
Only a small part called visible light.
What layer of the earth does plate tectonics flow on?
The Mantle
If all producers are removed from an ecosystem, what would happen to the consumers?
The consumers would die, but the remaining organisms in the food web survive.
What is photosynthesis?
Photosynthesis is the process in which green plants use sunlight to create their own energy.
Define tide:
The rising & falling of the sea
Fill in the blank:
____ carry _______ and _____ travel through ______
Waves carry energy and can travel through matter.
Define transform boundary:
when two tectonic plates move past one another (scrape past one another)
Why do predators need plants in their ecosystem?
Plants provide food for the animals that the predators eat.
Define tropism
Tropism are growth toward or away from a stimulus.
How does the rotation of earth result in day & night?
Because when the earth rotates on its axis the part that is facing the sun is experiencing day while the part not facing the sun experience night.
Define Frequency:
The number of wave that pass a point each second
Define convergent boundary:
are places where two or more plates move toward each other (Destructive)