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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A structure, behavior, or trait that helps an organism survive | adaptation |
| A large body or bubble of air that has the same temperature all the way through it | air mass |
| an object's height above sea level | altitude |
| a change in an object's speed | acceleration |
| to examine the parts of | analyze |
| the layer of air between Earth's surface and outer space | atmosphere |
| an animal that lives in water when young and on land when an adult | amphibian |
| a weather insturment that measures wind speed | anemometer |
| an animal that has a hard outer skeleton and legs with joints | arthropod |
| a large flat surface on the ocean floor | abyssal plain |
| the presence of harmful substances in the air | air pollution |
| the weight of air pushing on everything around it | air pressure |
| a large space rock that orbits the sun | asteroid |
| an imaginary line that passes from the North Pole to the South Pole through the center of Earth | axis |
| a graph that uses bars to compare the same kind of data for different things | bar graph |
| a weather instrument that measures air pressure | barometer |
| something an organism does in response to its environment | behavior |
| fuel that comes from plants and animals | biomass |
| the boiling point of water in celsius | 100 degrees |
| the boiling point of water in fahrenheit | 212 degrees |
| the freezing point of water in celsius | 0 degrees |
| the freezing point of water in fahrenheit | 32 degrees |
| the upward push of a liquid or gas on an object | buoyant force |
| the shape, color, or pattern of an animal that helps it blend in with its surroundings | camouflage |
| a gas needed by plants for photosynthesis | carbon dioxide |
| an animal that eats only meat | carnivore |
| a graph that compares parts to the whole | circle or pie graph |
| a closed path through which electricity travels | circuit |
| all of the living things in an ecosystem | community |
| the struggle between two organisms to obtain the same resource | competition |
| a feature that helps an organism survive | characteristic |
| a region in which particles are bunched together | compression |
| a judgement supported by fact | conclusion |
| when a substance changes from liquid to gas | condensation |
| a material that allows energy to travel through it easily or quickly | conductor |
| the careful use and protection of natural resources | conservation |
| an organism that feeds on other organisms | consumer |
| a feature that does not change in an experiment | control |
| an enormous,slowly moving landmass that floats on Earth's surface | continent |
| the flow of charges through a circuit | current |
| the smallest living part of an organism | cell |
| a green substance in plant leaves that captures the energy in sunlight | chlorophyll |
| a high feathery cloud made of ice crystals | cirrus cloud |
| the grouping of organisms based on their simliarities and differences | classification |
| the leading side or edge of a moving mass of cooler air | cold front |
| a mountain sized chunk of ice and dust that orbits the sun | comet |
| populations of different kinds (species) of organisms that live in the same place at the same time | community |
| a tool that uses a magnetized pointer to show north | compass |
| a lens that is thinner in the center and thicker at the edges. It bends light outwards. | concave |
| a lens that is thicker in the middle and thinner on the edges. It bends light inwards. | convex |
| when a gas changes to a liquid | condensation |
| The very center of earth. | inner core |
| Earth's outer layer. | the crust |
| a jellylike liquid that fills most of a cell | cytoplasm |
| Information that is collected. | data |
| an organism that gets energy by feeding on dead material and wastes | decomposer |
| the amount of mass in a substance | density |
| a biome with very little rain and few plants. May be hot or cold. | desert |
| to disperse | to scatter |
| to mix evenly and separate into particles too small to be seen. | dissolve |
| something that can be measured using a ruler | distance |
| a period of dryness | drought |
| one object in space casting its shadow on another object in space | eclipse |
| all of the living and nonliving things that interact with each other in an environment | ecoystem |
| a magnet made by wrapping a wire around a metal object such as a nail and sending a current through it by attaching it to a battery | electromagnet |
| what organisms get from food | energy |
| an organism's surroundings | environment |
| these are caused when earth's plate move | earthquakes |
| when rocks or soil is worn away by wind, water, or ice | erosion |
| when a liquid becomes a gas | evaporation |
| no longer living on earth | extinct |
| a flattened oval circle | ellipse |
| a diagram that shows the amount of energy passed on at each level of a food chain | energy pyramid |
| the surroundings an organism lives in | environment |
| an imaginary line that circles earth halfway between the North and South poles | eguator |
| a hard outer covering that protects an animal's soft body parts inside | exoskeleton |
| a crack in earth's crust | fault |
| a device used to separate the parts of a mixture by passing the mixture through it | filter |
| a cloud that forms close to the ground | fog |
| mountains that formed when land was squeezed together | folded mountain |
| the path of food energy from one organism to another | food chain |
| overlapping food chains that shows different paths the energy flows | food web |
| a push or a pull | force |
| the remains or traces of an organism that lived long ago | fossil |
| a fuel formed from the decayed remains of ancient plants and animals | fossil fuel |
| to change from a liquid to a solid when the temperature drops | freeze |
| the largest planet in the solar system | Jupiter |
| between Mars and Jupiter | asteroid belt |
| how many times something occurs | frequency |
| a force between two surfaces rubbing against each other | friction |
| a place where one air mass meets anther air mass | front |
| a structure that grows from a flower of any plant and contains seeds | fruit |
| a material that is burned to produce heat energy | fuel |
| a job that something does | function |
| the growth or sprouting of a new plant from a seed | germination |
| the force that causes attraction between objects | gravity |
| a group of millions of stars | galaxy |
| a state of matter which takes the shape and volume of its container | gas |
| heat from melted rock deep below earth's surface used to heat buildings and produce electricity | geothermal energy |
| structures in an organism that removes oxygen from water | gills |
| a large body of moving ice that stays frozen all year | glacier |
| the place where an organism lives | habitat |
| anything that is dangerous | hazard |
| the line at the bottom of a graph | horizontal axis |
| water vapor in the air | humidity |
| decaying plant and animal materil in soil | humus |
| electricity that is produced from flowing water like that moving through a dam | hydroelectricity |
| all the water on earth | hydrosphere |
| a weather instrument that measures humidity | hygrometer |
| a predicted answer to a scientific question | hypothesis |
| a rock formed from cooled lava | igneous rock |
| the tendency of an object at rest to remain at rest or of a moving object to keep moving | inertia |
| an animal that eats only plants | herbivore |
| a that cannot be used up | inexhaustible resource |
| a characteristic passed from parent to offspring | inherited trait |
| another word for an organism's children | offspring |
| a behavior passed from parent to offspring | instinct |
| to explain what you think certain information means | interpret |
| the center of earth made of solid metal | inner core |
| a material that does not let energy pass through it | insulator |
| an animal that does not have a backbone | invertebrate |
| the energy of motion | kinetic energy |
| a natural feature on earth's surface like a mountain, valley, or plateau | landform |
| the changed behavior of an organism because of practice or experience it has gained | learned behavior |
| an object used to refract light | lens |
| the stages of development an organism goes through as it grows and develops | life cycle |
| the small wormlike stage in the life cycle of some insects | larva |
| this energy is faster than sound and can be broken into a rainbow | light energy |
| a graph used to show change | line graph |
| a state of matter that takes the shape of its container but has a definite volume | liquid |
| all the rocks on earth | lithosphere |
| melted rock below earth's surface | magma |
| an object that attracts iron | magnet |
| an animal with a backbone, fur or hair, lungs, live birth, feeds mile | mammal |
| earth's layer below the crust | mantle |
| a diagram that show locatiions | map |
| the amount of matter in something | mass |
| the stuff or material that everything is made of: it has mass and takes up space | matter |
| a rock that is formed when another kind of rock is squeezed and heated deep inside earth | metamorphic rock |
| the changes in form some insect go through | metamorphosis |
| the seasonal movement of some animals from one place to another | migration |
| when one animal looks like another to help it survive | mimicry |
| a combination of two or more substances that can be easily separated | mixture |
| a picture or object that represents something else | model |
| a natural object that orbits a planet | moon |
| the role an organism has in its environment | niche |
| a resource that can be used up | nonrenewable resource |
| materials in the environment that are useful to people | natural resources |
| a substance that an organism needs to survive and grow | nutrient |
| an animal that eats plants and animals | omnivore |
| the curved path an object follows around another | orbit |
| a living thing | organism |
| the layer of earth between the mantle and innercore | outer core |
| a layer of gas high in earth's atmosphere that blocks some of the harmful radiation from the sun | ozone |
| the changes in the way the moon looks as it orbits the earth | moon phases |
| the process of plants making food | photosynthesis |
| something that is done to prevent an accident | precaution |
| any form of water that falls from the sky | precipitation |
| an animal that hunts other animals | predator |
| an animal that is hunted by others | prey |
| an organism that can make its own food | producer |
| a stage in metamorphosis when the larva is changing into an adult (in a cocoon) | pupa |
| an electric circuit in which each device has its own separate loop or circle | parallel circuit |
| how high or low a sound is | pitch |
| a huge piece of earth's crust | plate |
| all the organisms of the same species that live in the same place | population |
| a glass bar that separates light into the color of the rainbow | prism |
| red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet | what ROY G BIV stands for |
| to reuse materials | recycle |
| the bending of light when it moves from one material to another | refraction |
| a resource that can be replaced in a short time | renewable resource |
| any material an animal needs for survival and is availabe in its habitat | resource |
| an animal that feeds on dead animals like a buzzard | scavenger |
| a developing plant embryo | seed |
| energy that comes from the sun | solar energy |
| a type of mixture in which the ingredients dissolve into each other and cannot be easily separated | solution |
| vibrations that can be heard | sound |
| the changes that take place in an ecosystem over time | succession |
| a medium sized star closest to earth | sun |
| when both sides of an object are the same | symmetry |
| when light rays bounce back from an object | reflection |
| to make more of the same kind | reproduce |
| an animal with a backbone, leathery skin or scales, lungs, lays eggs or gives birth to live young | reptile |
| one complete trip around the sun | revolution |
| plant structures that hold a plant in place and take in nutrients from the soil | roots |
| the spinning of a planet on its axis | rotation |
| the amount of salt in something | salinity |
| a kind of grassland | savanna |
| a rock formed when sediments are pressed together | sedimentary rock |
| bits of rock , sand, shell, and the remains of organisms | sediment |
| an electricity circuit where the devices are connected in one straight loop | series circuit |
| solar energy | energy from the sun |
| the state of matter with a definite shape and definite volume | solid |
| the ability to dissolve | solubility |
| solid, liquid , gas are | states of matter |
| physical property related to heat | temperature |
| if you can observe it and measure it you can | test it |
| the roughness of a material | texture |
| one complete investigation | trial |
| a tool that measures temperature | thermometer |
| a characteristic of an organism | trait |
| a giant ocean wave caused by earthquake | tsunami |
| validity means | truthful |
| the part of an experiment that is different, the part that is being tested | variable |
| a process that breaks down rocks | weathering |
| a place that is airless space | vacuum |
| an animal with a backbone | vertebrate |
| the up and down line at the side of a graph | vertical axis |
| the amount of space something takes up | volume |
| the gas state of water | water vapor |
| nothing can grow on the moon because there is no | atmosphere |
| how long it takes earth to rotate on its axis one time | 24 hours |
| how long it takes earth to revolve around the sun one time | 365 days |
| how long it takes the moon to go through its cycle one time | 29 days |
| a dog learning to sit is an example of a | learned behavior |
| a dog getting immunity from rabies is an example of | acquired trait |
| a dog being born with long ears like his mother is an example of a | inherited trait |
| a bird building a nest is an example of | inherited behavior |
| white on the right means the moon is | waxing |
| black on the right means the moon is | waning |