Question | Answer |
Organism that uses energy from the sun or other chemical reactions to make its own food. | Producer |
An animal that feeds on other animals and plants. | Omnivore |
Organism that feeds on dead animals. | Scavenger |
An organism that breaks down dead organisms, animal droppings, leaves, and other waste produced by living things. | Decomposer |
Photosynthetic plants and algae produce what? | All of the energy in their ecosystem |
A producer contains the most energy?
true/false | True |
All ecosystems or biomes have organisms do what? | Fill similar ecologic rules |
Phyto plankton live in fresh or salt water, but what do they produce? | Their own food |
A nonliving part of an ecosystem. | Abiotic factors |
A living part of an ecosystem. | Biotic factors |
Fewer organisms exist in the polar tundra because? | Not as many organisms are specialized to survive the cold |
The sun is a? | Constant source of energy |
Plastic comes from? | Oil |
If object x is more dense then object n will object n sink or float? | Float |
Sound travels by? | Vibrating air molecules |
Friction produces what? | Heat |
The transfer of thermal energy by collisions between particles in matter. | Conduction |
Transfer of thermal energy by electromagnetic waves. | Radiation |
Transfer of thermal energy by the movement in matter. | Convection |
Ultra violet waves are harmful and can? | Pass through clouds |
Our California current keeps? | Our state cool |
Warm moist air comes from? | The poles |
The lithosphere contains? | Earth's plate tectonics |
Earthquakes occur along? | Plate boundries |
What happens when continental and continental plates colide? | Mountain building |
What happens when oceanic and continental plates colide? | Subduction |
The San Adreas fault occurs along? | The border of oceanic & continental plates |
The richter scale is used to? | Measure the strength of earthquakes |
What is triangulation? | Uses S-waves and P-waves to determine the epicenter of an earthquake |
Lithification turns? | Sedimentary rock |
Define uniformitariasm. | The idea that the process are at work today were also working on Earth in the past |
Define superposition. | Theory that the udisturbed layers of rock have the oldest layers on the bottom and the youngest on the top |
Which layer is the youngest? | The layer on the top |
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