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5th Science Rev
TAKS review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| behavior you're not born knowing how to do, you must be taught | learned behavior |
| an inherited trait that helps an organism meets its needs | adaptation |
| living things such as plants and animals, including people | organisms |
| behaviors animals are born knowing how to do | instinctive behaviors |
| the place where an animal or species lives | habitat |
| process by which plants use carbon dioxide,gas,water and energy from the sun to produce its' own food | photosynthesis |
| a species that eats or consumes only plants | herbivores |
| a consumer that eats other consumers (a meat eater) | carnivore |
| a consumer that eats both poducers and other consumers (plant and meats) | omnivore |
| organisms which get their energy by breaking down dead organisms and the wastes of living | decomposers |
| a diagram that shows how energy moves from one organism to another in an ecosystem | food web |
| when water at Earth's surface moves into the air | evaporation |
| when water falls back to the ground | precipitation |
| when water condenses to form clouds | condensation |
| release oxygen and take in carbon dioxide during photosynthesis | plants |
| breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide | animals |
| chemicals needed for growth | proteins |
| anything that takes up space and has mass | matter |
| the amount of matter in an object | mass |
| the measure of force of gravity on an object | weight |
| the three state of matter | solid, liquid, and gas |
| state of matter in which particles are packed tightly together and it maintains its shape | solid |
| state of matter in which the particles flow past each other and it takes on the shape of its container | liquid |
| state of matter in which the particles flow freely and they take on both the shape and the volume of their container | gas |
| when two or more substances are mixed together but can be physically separated fairly easily | mixture |
| a mixture in which one substance dissolves into another | solution |
| energy that comes from the sun | solar energy |
| movement of electricity through an electric circuit | electric current |
| a motion that causes sound | vibration |
| the process by which a liquid changes to a solid | freezing |
| the process by which a gas changes to a liquid | condensation |
| the bending of light | refraction |
| the bouncing of light | reflection |
| any push of pull | force |
| the only part of the solar system which produces light of its' own | sun |
| breaking down rocks | weathering |
| carrying sediments to another location | erosion |
| resources that can be replaced in a short amount of time | renewable resources |
| resources that cannot be replaced in a short amount of time,people will use them up before they can be replaced by nature | nonrenewable resources |
| resources that people cannot use up | inexhaustible resources |