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Interactions of Living Things
Energy in Ecosystems
Rocks and Minerals
Rapid and Slow Changes in Earth
Electricity and Magnetism
100
a thing that breaks down the remains of dead organisms
What is a Decomposer?
100
an animal that eats only other animals
What is a Carnivore?
100
a solid material that is made up of one or more minerals
What is a Rock?
100
opening in the Earth's crust through which hot ash, gases and molten rock (lava) escape from deep within the Earth
What is a Volcano?
100
a material that restricts the flow of electric charges
What is an Insulator?
200
an organism that makes its own food
What is a Producer?
200
An animal that eats only plants
What is a Herbivore?
200
a nonliving solid material that has a definite chemical makeup
What is a Mineral?
200
a sudden movement of part of the Earth's crust
What is an Earthquake?
200
a material through which negatively charged particles flow easily
What is a Conductor?
300
the scattering or carrying away of seeds from a plant by wind and animals
What is Seed Dispersal?
300
an animal that eats both plants and animals
What is Omnivore?
300
sand, particles of rock, bits of soil, and remains of once-living things
What is Sediment?
300
a very large ocean wave caused by an earthquake
What is a Tsunami?
300
when parts are connected so electric current passes through each part, one after another along, a single pathway
What is Series Circuit?
400
a physical feature or a behavior that helps a plant or animal survive
What is an Adaptation?
400
a process where plants use carbon dioxide gas from the air and water in the soil to make food in the form of sugar
What is Photosynthesis?
400
the continuous series of changes that rocks undergo
What is the Rock Cycle?
400
slow wearing away or breaking down of rock into smaller pieces caused by wind, moving water, chemicals and ice
What is Weathering?
400
when parts are connected so that electric current passes along more than one pathway
What is a Parallel Circuit?
500
an adaptation that allows and animal to protect itself by looking like another kind of animal or like a plant
What is Mimicry?
500
a tiny living thing that can be seen only with a microscope
What is a Microorganism?
500
new rock that forms when existing rocks are changed by heat, pressure, or chemicals beneath the Earth's surface
What is Metamorphic Rock?
500
sudden movement of loose rock and soil down a steep slope
What is a Landslide?
500
the space in which the force of a magnet can act and is strongest at the poles
What is a Magnetic Field?