Middle School Science Vocabulary

What is an Ecosystem?

• The process of an organisim to change color and blend into it's environment

• the struggle between organisims for limited resources

• a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.

• the function or purpose and organis serves

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A group of atoms bonded together, is a...

• molecule

• atom

• factor

• electron

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Mechanical energy, stored energy, or energy caused by its position is called...

• Kinetic Energy

• Potential Energy

• Force

• Velocity

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What is the energy an object has because of its motion?

• Potential Energy

• Force

• Kinetic Energy

• Speed

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What Law states that gravitational force is related to mass and distance of the objects?

• Inertia

• universal gravitation

• plate techtonics

• net force

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What is Plate Tectonics?

• Stress that squeezes rock until it folds or breaks

• A theory stating that the Earth's surface is broken into plates that move.

• Sections of the Earth's crust that move due to convection currents.

• the layer of the earth between the crust and the core

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any living component that affects another organism or shapes the ecosystem is called a ...

• community

• biotic factor

• ecosystem

• abiotic factor

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What is matter?

• A pure substance that cannot be broken down by chemical or physical means.

• Anything that has mass and takes up space

• The basic particle from which all elements are made.

• Compounds formed from chemical reactions.

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What is Symbiosis?

• any type of a close and long-term biological interaction between two different species where at least one benifits

• a group or association of populations of two or more different species occupying the same geographical area and in a particular time

• an ecological or environmental area that is inhabited by a particular species of animal, plant or other type of organism

• evolutionary process that fits organisms to their environment, enhancing their evolutionary fitness.

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What is it called when you draw a conclusion from information; to presume from evidence or observation?

• Observation

• Inference

• Example

• Evidence

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