Vocabulary
Venus Landforms
Geology on Mars
Populations and Resources
Matter and Energy in the Ecosystem
100

A person who studies the surface of planets.

What is an ecologist?

100

A strong explosion on the surface of a white dwarf in the system.

What is a nova?

100

Any planet with a solid surface.

What is a rocky planet?

100

A scientist who studies the interaction of organisms each other.

What is an ecologist?

100

Tiny pieces that all things in the world are made of.

What is atoms?

200

Having the conditions necessary to support life.

What is habitable?

200

Molten rocks that are hot viscous mixtures.

What is magma?

200

The mixture of gases surrounding a planet.

What is the atmosphere?

200

All the living things and non-living things interacting in an area.

What is ecosystem?

200

A molecule made of carbon and oxygen atoms.

What is carbon dioxide?

300

The solid part of a rocky planet.

What is the geosphere?

300

A set of things working together as parts of mechanism.

What is a system.

300
All solid water (ice) and liquid water on a planet.
What is hydrosphere?
300

A model that shows a thing eats what in an ecosystem.

What is food web?

300

A type of energy storage molecule made of many glucose molecules connected together.

What is starch?

400

A claim supported by evidence.

What is scientific arguement?

400

Mineral acid that are composed of elements as sulfur, oxygen, and hydrogen.

What is sulfuric acid?

400

A three-dimensional representation of a person or thing.

What is a model?

400

The result of one cause leading to an effect that causes one or more effects.

What is indirect effect?

400

The chemical reaction between oxygen and glucose that releases energy into cells.

What is cellar respiration?

500

The way molecules in a substance move around each other.

What is freedom of movement?

500

The phenomenon where solids, liquids, gases, and their mixtures erupt to the surface on a planet or moon.

What is volcanism?

500
Dynamic natural mechanism that shapes the surface overtime.

What is geologic process?

500

A molecule that organisms can use to release energy made of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms.

What is glucose?

500

The process by which plants and other producers use energy from sunlight to change carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and glucose.

What is photosynthesis?