Organisms
The smallest part of a living thing that can carry out all the processes of life.
What is a cell?
A strong gene, like brown hair and brown eyes.
What is a dominant trait?
The way that energy and nutrients move through an ecosystem.
What is a food chain?
The amount of moisture in the air, often higher during the summer months.
What is humidity?
Matter cannot be created or destroyed.
What is the Law of Conservation?
The force that pulls objects together.
What is gravity?
Relating or resulting from living things
What is Biotic?
A big mass of warm air moves into an area and slowly pushes out the cold air.
What is a warm front?
A group of tissues that work together to perform closely related functions.
What is an organ?
A characteristic or property of an organism. For example: freckles
What is a trait?
An organism that makes its own food, the foundation of a food chain.
What is a producer?
When the sun heats up water in oceans, lakes, rivers or ponds and turns into vapor or steam.
What is evaporation?
The three states of matter.
What are solids, liquids, and gasses?
The force that resists motion when two objects are rubbed together.
What is friction?
When all the elements live in balance and are capable of reproducing themselves.
What is sustainable?
The clouds that bring heavy rain, thunderstorms and sometimes even snow.
What are cumulonimbus?
A group of similar cells that performs the same function.
What is a tissue?
A weaker gene, like blue eyes, that hides behind dominant genes.
What is a recessive gene?
An organism that returns the nutrients to the environment, and completing the food chain.
What is a decomposer?
Water vapor cools into water droplets and forms clouds.
What is evaporation?
Any change in the size, shape or state of matter.
What is a physical change?
Energy possessed by an object due to motion.
What is kinetic energy?
A variety of living things, having a lot of different kinds of things or people.
What is biodiversity?
Currents that are driven by wind and and move warm or cold water.
What are surface currents?
An organism made up of many cells.
What is a multicellular organism?
The product of a male and female parent.
What is an offspring?
An animal that feeds on plants.
What is an herbivore?
rain, snow, hail, sleet
What is precipitation?
A change of materials into another, new materials with different properties and one, or more than one new substances are formed.
What is a chemical change?
The energy of an object relative to position or other objects.
What is Potential Energy?
To develop and grow to be successful.
What is thrive?
Carries warm water from the tropics to the East coast of the United States and Europe.
What is the Gulf Stream?
Groups of organs that work together to perform a specific function.
What is an organ system?
A characteristic that a living thing gets during it's lifetime.
What is an acquired trait.
A living thing that eats other organisms to gain energy to survive.
What is a consumer?
Water in plants is heated by the sun and it causes it to rise.
What is transpiration?
Heat transfer through direct contact.
What is conduction?
A roller coaster gains this at the top of a hill.
What is potential energy?
Of or relating to the earth.
What is terrestrial?
The currents that fuel hurricanes and typhoons, adding energy to storms.
What are warm currents?
The body system that carries, (delivers, transports) waste, oxygen and nutrients throughout the body through blood.
What is the circulatory system or what is the cardiovascular system?
A skill that an animal develops after it is born.
What is learned behavior?
An animal that feeds on flesh.
What is a carnivore?
How warm or cold it is.
What is temperature?
Heat transfer through electromagnetic waves like light and infrared waves.
What is radiation?
As the roller coaster drops down the energy is turned into
What is kinetic energy?
Relating to water.
What is aquatic?
Rising air creates this type of pressure.
What is low pressure?
The body system that works closely with the skeletal system and allows the body to move.
What is the muscular system?
A group of organisms of the same kind that live in the same area at the same time.
What is population?
An animal or person that eats food of both plant and animal origin.
What is an omnivore?
The movement of air, measured in miles per hour.
What is wind?
Heat transfer through the movement of liquids and gases.
What is convection?
An object that holds potential energy when stretching it, but when it is released it has kinetic energy.
What is a rubber band?
A physical or behavioral change that helps an animal survive in its environment.
What is adaptation?
The arm air over the land rises, the cooler air over the water moves in to take its place.
What are Sea Breezes?
A muscle that helps the lungs (respiratory system) inflate and deflate.
What is a diaphragm?
Curly hair
What is a dominant trait?
Not from living organisms.
What is abiotic?
The amount of cloud cover, brightness of the sun and visibility in the atmosphere.
What are sky conditions?
A candle burning.
What is a physical and chemical change?
The ability to do work.
What is energy?
To rise and fall irregularly, the temperatures do this during seasons.
What is fluctuate?
The amount of major lines of latitude.
What is five?