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5th Science Rev
TAKS review
Question | Answer |
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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 |