Vocabulary QUIZ Words
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- Diversity
- A great deal of variety.
- Materials
- The pieces or required parts to complete an experiment or activity
- species
- A group of organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.
- emigration
- A category of population dispersal covering one-way movement out of the population area.
- Procedure
- The steps taken to complete an experiment
- Jet Stream
- A relatively narrow band of strong wind in the upper levels of the atmosphere.
- Observation
- Using your 5 senses to collect information.
- Condensation
- Occurs when water vapor cools and changes into liquid droplets
- respiration
- The physical and chemical processes by which an organism supplies its cells and tissues with the oxygen needed for metabolism and relieves them of the carbon dioxide formed in energy-producing reactions.
- carnivore
- A flesh-eating animal.
- Predator
- An animal that lives by capturing prey as a means of maintaining life.
- Organism
- An individual constituted to carry on the activities of life by means of organs separate in function but mutually dependent; a living being.
- ecosystem
- The complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit.
- Evaporation
- Occurs when liquid water is changed into water vapor
- Anemometer
- Measures wind speed
- Life
- An organism that has the capacity for metabolism, growth, reaction to stimuli and reproduction.
- photosynthesis
- The chemical process by which chlorophyll-containing plants use light to convert carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates, releasing oxygen as a byproduct.
- ecological
- The interactions and relationships between organisms and their environment.
- Producer
- Any of various organisms (such as a green plant) which produce their own organic compounds from simple precursors (such as carbon dioxide and inorganic nitrogen) and many of which are food sources for other organisms.
- lithosphere
- The solid part of a celestial body (such as Earth), specifically, the outer part of the solid Earth composed of rock essentially like that exposed at the surface and usually considered to be about 80 kilometers (50 miles) in thickness.
- Classification
- Systematic arrangement in groups or categories according to established criteria or rules
- Atmosphere
- Mixture of gasses that surround Earth
- Water cycle
- The continuous movement of water from water sources into the air, onto land and over the ground and back to the water sources
- Runoff
- Water that flows across land and collects in rivers, streams, oceans, etc.
- Wind Vane
- Measures wind direction
- Independent Variable
- Causes change of another variable in an experiment
- Community
- Interacting populations that live in a defined habitat.
- Barometer
- An instrument for determining the pressure of the atmosphere.
- Quantitative
- Involving the measurement of quantity or amount.
- consumer
- An organism requiring complex organic compounds for food, which it obtains by
- Omnivore
- An animal that feeds on both animal and vegetable substances.
- Source Region
- Area from which an air mass originates
- food web
- The totality of interacting food chains in an ecological community; interacting food chains in an ecological community.
- decomposers
- Organisms such as bacteria and fungi that feed and breakdown dead organisms returning constituents of organic substances to the environment.
- Biotic
- An environmental factor related to or produced by living organisms.
- herbivore
- A plant-eating animal.
- Pressure Gradient
- The difference in pressure between a high and low pressure system
- Electrical energy
- energy due to moving electrons
- habitat
- The place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows.
- food chain
- An arrangement of the organisms of an ecological community according to the order of predation in which each uses the next usually lower member as a food source.
- Radiation
- Energy that is transferred as electromagnetic waves. This is how the sun heats planet Earth
- cycle
- An interval of time during which a sequence of a recurring succession of events or phenomena is completed.
- Kinetic energy
- The energy of motion
- Qualitative
- Involving quality or kind.
- Climate
- The average course or condition of the weather at a place usually over a period
- Potential energy
- Energy due to position
- Ecology
- The study of the relationships between organisms and their environment.
- dependent variable
- A variable whose values are determined by one or more (independent) variables.
- Air Mass
- Large body of air with uniform temperature and humidity.
- capacity
- The maximum amount or number that can be contained or accommodated.
- immigration
- Coming into the population.
- Scavenger
- An organism that feeds habitually on refuse or carrion.
- environment
- The complex of physical, chemical and biotic factors that act upon an organism or an ecological community and ultimately determine its form and survival.
- Abiotic
- A nonliving factor or element (e.g., light, water, heat, rock, energy, mineral)
- Conduction
- The Transfer of energy when objects come in direct contact or touch
- hydrosphere
- The aqueous envelope of the Earth including bodies of water and aqueous vapor in the atmosphere.
- Thermometer
- Measure the temperature of an object
- Dependent Variable
- The variable that is determined by one or more other variables
- Climate
- The average weather conditions in an area over a long period of time
- water cycle
- The sequence of conditions through which water passes from vapor in the atmosphere through precipitation upon land or water surfaces and ultimately back into the atmosphere as a result of evaporation and transpiration.
- independent variable
- A variable whose value is specified first and determines the value of one or more other values.
- Greenhouse Effect
- Heating caused by having an atmosphere
- Surface Currents
- A streamlike movement of water that occurs at or near the surface of the ocean.
- Air Pressure
- The weight of air surrounding an object
- Rain Gauge
- Instrument used to measure precipitation
- characteristic
- A distinguishing trait, feature, quality or property.
- Transpiration
- The process when plants release water vapor into the air through their leaves
- weather
- The state of the atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness.
- Data
- The information collected by observations
- Hypothesis
- The possibly solution or explanation to a problem. What you think will happen in an experiment or activity
- Elevation
- The height of surface landforms above sea level.
- population
- All the plants or animals of the same kind found in a given area.
- Convection
- Transfer of thermal energy by the circulation or movement (hot air rising, cool air sinking)
- friction
- The force that resists relative motion between two bodies in contact.
- Prevailing Winds
- winds that blow blow mainly from one direction. They also influence an area's moisture and temperature.
- biome
- Major ecological community (tropical rain forest, grassland or desert).
- control
- A group used as a standard of comparison for checking the results of an experiment.
- Prey
- An animal taken by a predator as food.
- Organic
- Compounds containing carbon and chiefly or ultimately of biological origin.
- Barometer
- Measures air pressure