This consists of the abiotic and biotic parts of an environment.
What is an ecosystem?
100
Comfortable room temperature.
What is 25 degrees Celsius?
100
A combination of two or more substances that retain their matter (you can see the two different substances).
What is a heterogeneous mixture?
100
The largest and most complex layer of the Earth.
What is the mantle?
100
These are thought to be responsible for the movement of the Earth's crustal plates.
What are convection currents?
200
Lichen is an example of this because it can break down rock and create soil which is the beginning of an ecosystem.
What is lichen?
200
Particles in this substance are free to move about and slide past each other.
What is a liquid?
200
A combination of two or more mixtures that appear to be the same throughout and have the same composition throughout.
What is a homogeneous mixture?
200
Acid rain wearing away the details on a statue is an example of this.
What is weathering?
200
These are continuously recycled in an ecosystem and passed on through decaying matter, soil, water and air.
What are nutrients?
300
A parking lot has been abandoned for a number of years. Grass is beginning to grow up through the cracks in the asphalt and animals are beginning to make their home their again. This is an example of what type of succession?
Secondary
300
Process by which heat is transferred from one substance to another (example skillet on a burner gets hot).
What is conduction?
300
This forms when no more solute will dissolve in a specific amount of solvent at a certain temperature.
What is a saturated solution?
300
A plant that can cause mechanical weathering and is also known as a pioneer species.
What is lichen?
300
Process to separate a mixture by which both the solute and the solvent are recovered.
What is distillation?
400
Air, wind, temperature, water and soil.
What are abiotic factors of the environment?
400
This type of energy comes from movement. Temperature is also the average measure of this energy.
What is kinetic energy?
400
Contains only one component and the one component is made up of just one type of particle.
What is a pure substance?
400
When soil or dirt is moved from one area to another by wind, water, gravity etc.
What is erosion?
400
Colour, lustre, fracture/cleavage, streak, and hardness.
What are the properties of a mineral?
500
An ecosystem that remains undisturbed for a number of years. The boreal forest and the Prairie grasslands are examples of this.
What is a climax community?
500
This is the process of turning a gas to a solid.
What is sublimation?
500
This size of solute will dissolve faster.
What is smaller or broken up?
500
This type of rock is made from sediments and usually has layers.
What is sedimentary?
500
This type of soil is greasy, has little permeability or porosity.