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6thgrade examScience
the 6th grade science study guide words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is Geological Time Scale? | a timeline that represents the entire history of earth since its formation. |
| What is Weathering? | when rock is broken down |
| What is Erosion? | sediments and soil moved by wind, water and graivty. |
| What can fossils tel us? | what plants and animals lived in the past. |
| What is Pangaea? | a 2 million year old super continent. |
| What is Continental drift? | the theroy of moving continents to the place they are now. |
| What causes Earths movement in Litospheric plates and how fast do they move? | convection causes plates to move they move about 2 cm. a year. |
| Explain the theroy of Plate Techtonics? | that plates are in a slow constant motion. |
| What happens on a transform boundry and what way does it go? | Earthquakes happen, goes next to eachother like knuckles. |
| What happens on a convergent boundry and what way does it go? | Volcanoes happen, goes into eachother like a carcrash. |
| What happens on a divergent boundry and what way does it go? | New ocean floors are created, goes away from eachother like same magnets. (North and North) |
| What is the name of the area where many earthquakes and volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean? | Ring of Fire. |
| What is a food web? | all the feeding relationships in a communtiy. |
| What is a consumer? | organism that feeds off other organisms. |
| What is a producer? | organism that feeds off its own food through photosynthesis. |
| What is a decomposer? | organism that eats other organinsms and turns its nutrients into simple chemicals. |
| What is a carnivore? | organism that eats only meat. |
| What is an omnivore? | organism that eats both plants and meat. |
| What is a herbivore? | organism that eats only plants. |
| What is a scavenger? | organism who feeds off the bodies of dead organisms. |
| What is an abiotic factor? | dead/un- living. |
| What is a biotic factor? | alive. |
| What is a niche? | organisms role and how it makes a living. |
| What is adaptation? | a way an organism changes to better fit where it lives and what it eats. |
| What is an inherited trait? | trait you were born with. |
| What is an acquired trait? | trait you get after birth. |
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