ScienceVoc. Word Scramble

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wetlands	water ecosystems that include saltwater marshers, mangrove, swamps, and mud flats.
conserving	the saving or protecting of resources.
recycle	to recover a resource from an item and use the recovered resource to make a new item.
reduce	to cut down on the use of resources
reuse	to use items again; sometimes for a different purpose.
exotic	an imported or non-native organism.
endangered	a population of organisms that is likely to become extinct if steps are not taken to save it. (50 or less are left)
extinct	There is no more of a particular population of animal.
threatened	a population of organisms that are likely to become endangered if they are not protected.
omnivore	An organism that eats borth meat & producers
erosion	the process of moving sediment from one place to another.
herbivore	An organism that eats only producers.
mass movement	this type of pressure brings clear, fair, weather and cooler temperatures.
weathering	the process of breaking rock into soil, sand, and other tiny pieces.
pollution	waste products that damage an ecosystem.
acid rain	precipitation resulting from pollution condensing into clouds and falling to Earth.
conserving	the saving or protecting of resources.
recycle	to recover a resource from an item and use the recovered resource to make a new item.
reduce	to cut down on the use of resources
reuse	to use items again; sometimes for a different purpose.
warm front	a mountain formed by lava and ash.
slope	how steep a grade or slant there is on a hill.
transpiration	this is water vapor given off by animals when they exhale and plants through their leaves.
mouth	is located where a river empties into an ocean.
valley	a low place between two mountains
plains	layered flat clouds that are low to the ground producing light rain or snow.
exotic	an imported or non-native organism.
endangered	a population of organisms that is likely to become extinct if steps are not taken to save it. (50 or less are left)
extinct	There is no more of a particular population of animal.
threatened	a population of organisms that are likely to become endangered if they are not protected.
biome	a large scale ecosystem
climate zone	a region throughout which yearly patterns of temperature, rainfall, and amount of sunlight are similar.
estuary	the place where a freshwater river empties into an ocean.
food chain	the ways in which the organisms in an ecosystem interact with one anohter according to what they eat.
food web	show the interactions among many different food chains in a single ecosystem.
instinct	a behavior that an organism inherits.
learned behavior	a behavior an animal learns from its parents
competition	the contest among organisms for the limited resources of an ecosystem.
symbiosis	a long-term relationship between differnt kinds of organisms.
niche	the role each population has in its habitat.
population	all the individuals of the same kind living in the same environment.
producer	an organism that makes its own food or plants.
consumer	an organism in a community that must eat to get the energy that it needs.
energy pyramid	show the amount of energy available to pass from one level of a food chain to the next.
condensation	The process by which a gas changes back into a liquid.
precipitation	Any form of water that falls from the clouds, such as rain or snow.
Evaporation	The process by which a liquid changes into a gas.
transpiration	the process in which plants give off water through their stomata.
water cycle	the cycle in which Earth's water moves through the environment.
individual	a single oranism in an environment
habitat	a place in an ecosystem where a population lives.
ecosystem	a community and its physical environment.
decomposer	a consumer that breaks down the tissues of dead organisms.
community	all the populations of organisms living together in an environment.
humidity	a measure of the amount of water in the air.
local winds	winds dependent upon local changes in temperature.
prevailing winds	the global winds that blow constantly from the same directions. (Sometimes called "westerlies")
microclimate	the climate of a very small area
greenhouse effect	process by which the Earth's atmosphere absorbs heat.
global warming	the hypothesized rise in Earth's average temperature from excess carbon dioxide.
el nino	A short-term climate change that occurs every two to ten years in the Pacific Ocean.
Climate	The average of all weather conditions through all seasons over a period of time.
barometer	an instrument that measures air pressure.
hygrometer	an instrument that measures the amount of humidity or water in the air.
wind vane	an instrument that measures wind direction.
anemometer	an instrument that measures wind speed.
rain gauge	an instrument that measures the amount of precipitation that falls from the sky.
cirrus clouds	thin and whispy clouds that are found high in the sky and are made of ice crystals and indicate fair weather.
cummulus clouds	looks like a cotton ball and usually means fair weather, but small amounts of rain may also occur.
cumnulonimbus clouds	tall, puffy, grayish looking clouds that indicate that stormy weather.
stratus clouds	flat, layered clouds that are found low in the sky, indicate precipitation, and they sometimes make it hard to see while driving.
natural resource	any of the useful minerals and other materials that people take from the Earth.
nonrenewable resource	a resource that cannot be readilyl replaced once it is used.
renewable resource	A resource that is replaced as it is used.
reusable resource	A natural resource that is renewed by natural cycles and can be used more than once.
recycling	the process of taking a resource from a product and making it into a new product.
reuse	to use a resource or material again.
reduce	to use less of a resource or material.
air pressure	the weight of air.
atmosphere	the layer of air that surrounds the Earth.
mutualism	a relationship between two organisms in which both organisms benefit.
gravitation	the force that pulls all objects in the universe toward one another.
magnetism	The force of pushing or pulling between poles of magnets.
balanced forces	The forces acting on an object that are equal in size na dopposite in direction, canceling each other out.
net force	the result of two or more forces acting together on an object.
unbalanced forces	forces that are not equal.
machine	something that makes work seem easier by changing hte size or the direction of the force.
force	a push or a pull that causes an object to move, stop, or change direction.
friction	a force that opposes, or acts against, motion when two surfaces rub against each other.
velocity	an object's speed in a particular direction.
intertia	The property of matter that keeps an object moving in a straight line or keeps it at rest.
power	the amount of work to be done for each unit of time.
work	the use of a force to move an object through a distance.
acceleration	a change in motion caused by unbalanced forces or a change in velocity.
momentum	a measure of how hard it is to slow down or stop an object.
postition	an objects place, or location.
speed	a measure of the distance an object moves in a given amount of time.
energy transfer	when energy is transferred from one object to another.
conduction	when energy is transferred from one object to another by contact.
convection current	the transfer of heat by the mass movement of heated particles into an area of cooler fluid.
radiation	when energy is transferred from one object to another through rays not contact.
density	the thickness of an object.
contract	when an object gets smaller.
expand	when an object gets larger.
uneven heating	when heat is distributed at different rates and in different areas.

Created by: rsanders

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