Word Definitions
The non-living factors in an ecosystem.
What is the definition of abiotic?
Temperature from hot to cold.
What is heat?
Warm air blowing against cold air.
What is a warm front?
A group of plants and animals interacting in an environment.
What is an ecosystem?
Objects are given the power to cause change.
What is Energy?
The minimum things needed to have a functioning electrical circuit.
What are the simple circuits?
Heat transfer through contact.
What is Conduction?
Cold air blowing against warm air.
What is a cold front?
A sequence of organisms where one consumes the one before it.
What is a Food Chain?
Stored energy in an object.
What is potential energy?
The process in which heat energy is transported through a fluid.
What is atmospheric convection?
Energy in the form of heat.
What is thermal energy?
Clear and sunny skies.
What is a high air pressure system?
A diagram shows how organisms in an ecosystem are connected by feeding relationships.
What is a Food Web?
Energy in motion.
What is kinetic energy?
An instrument used to measure.
What is an instrument used to measure humidity?
Heat transfer is done through a circular motion, such as a liquid or gas.
What is Convection?
Lots of precipitation and cloudy skies.
What is a Low-pressure system?
A graphical representation of energy flow through different trophic levels in an ecosystem.
What is an energy Pyramid?
The energy in an object is due to it being stretched or compressed.
What is Elastic Potential Energy?
Any factor that can affect the results of an experiment.
What is a variable?
Heat transfer through electromagnetic waves.
What is Radiation?
A dark, gray, and featureless, extending across the sky, often blocking out the sun.
What is a nimbostratus cloud?
organisms that produce their food.
What is a producer?
A form of energy that travels in electromagnetic radiation waves.
What is Light Kinetic Energy?