When water vapor is released from inside the Earth through volcanoes or cracks in the ground, adding moisture to the atmosphere.

How fast rocks break down into smaller pieces due to wind, water, or temperature changes.

When waves, wind, or storms wear away land along the coast, changing the shape of the shoreline.

When sand, rocks, or other materials are dropped off along the coast, building up new land like beaches or sandbars.

one parent cell makes a copy of itself (daughter cell)

The basic activities that all living things do to stay alive.

The slow change in living things over a long time. It explains how simple life forms changed into more complex ones and how species adapt to their environment.

The basic building blocks of all living things. They are the smallest units that can carry out life processes.

A simple cell without a nucleus. Bacteria are prokaryotes.

Early life forms that couldn’t make their own food. They had to eat other things to get energy.

Reef-building organisms

Sea creatures like corals that build large underwater structures (reefs) that provide homes for many ocean animals.

Living things, like plants and algae, that use sunlight to make their own food and release oxygen.

Combining eggs and sperm to create a new organism with unique genetic material

A more complex cell that has a nucleus and organelles. Plants, animals, and fungi are made of eukaryotic cells.

The process of making soil from broken-down rocks, dead plants, and tiny organisms over time.

multicellular organisms

Living things made up of many cells, like humans, animals, and plants.

All living creatures that move and eat other organisms for energy, like insects, birds, fish, and mammals.

All types of plants, from tiny mosses to tall trees, that use sunlight to make food and provide oxygen and shelter.

When two or more species change over time because they interact closely with each other, like bees and flowers evolving together.

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ES 2-7: Early Life

Early life on Earth

Term	Definition
outgassing of water	When water vapor is released from inside the Earth through volcanoes or cracks in the ground, adding moisture to the atmosphere.
weathering rates	How fast rocks break down into smaller pieces due to wind, water, or temperature changes.
Coastal erosion	When waves, wind, or storms wear away land along the coast, changing the shape of the shoreline.
Coastal deposition	When sand, rocks, or other materials are dropped off along the coast, building up new land like beaches or sandbars.
asexual reproduction	one parent cell makes a copy of itself (daughter cell)
life processes	The basic activities that all living things do to stay alive.
evolution	The slow change in living things over a long time. It explains how simple life forms changed into more complex ones and how species adapt to their environment.
cells	The basic building blocks of all living things. They are the smallest units that can carry out life processes.
prokaryote	A simple cell without a nucleus. Bacteria are prokaryotes.
heterotrophic life	Early life forms that couldn’t make their own food. They had to eat other things to get energy.
Reef-building organisms	Sea creatures like corals that build large underwater structures (reefs) that provide homes for many ocean animals.
photosynthetic life	Living things, like plants and algae, that use sunlight to make their own food and release oxygen.
Sexual reproduction	Combining eggs and sperm to create a new organism with unique genetic material
eukaryote	A more complex cell that has a nucleus and organelles. Plants, animals, and fungi are made of eukaryotic cells.
formation of soil	The process of making soil from broken-down rocks, dead plants, and tiny organisms over time.
multicellular organisms	Living things made up of many cells, like humans, animals, and plants.
Animal life	All living creatures that move and eat other organisms for energy, like insects, birds, fish, and mammals.
Plant life	All types of plants, from tiny mosses to tall trees, that use sunlight to make food and provide oxygen and shelter.
Co-evolution	When two or more species change over time because they interact closely with each other, like bees and flowers evolving together.

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