Matter and Energy Flashcard

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What is 'peat'?

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Dead, dried plants.

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What is a Zombie fire?

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Fires that stay lit during the winter.

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What does fire need to burn?

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Oxygen, fuel, heat.

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What is released during cellular respiration?

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Energy from chemical bonds.

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What is the Carbon Cycle?

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The flow of carbon from the atmosphere to plants, to animals, to the soil, and back into the atmosphere.

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What is matter?

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Anything that has mass and takes up space.

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What is energy?

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The ability to do work or cause change.

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What are the three states of matter?

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Solid, liquid, gas.

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What is the law of conservation of mass?

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Mass is neither created nor destroyed in a chemical reaction.

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What is a chemical reaction?

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A process that involves the rearrangement of the molecular or ionic structure of a substance.