A living thing such as a b plant that can make its own food
7
Layer in soil
8
A force that resists motion between touching objects
9
Type of rock that forms from melted rock
11
A simple machine that is a post with an inclined plane wrapped around it
19
A group of animals without a backbone
20
The path of one object in space around another object
21
The group of animals that have a backbone
22
Living parts of an ecosystem
23
A large, moving mass of ice
26
Where a magnet's force is
the strongest
30
A statement of what you think will happen in an experiment
31
The largest particles that make up soil
32
Variety in a species
33
A mixture in which two or more substances are mixed completely
35
Animal that eats only other animals
36
The remains or traces of a plant or animal that lived long ago
Down
2
Imaginary line on which the Earth rotates
4
An animal that eats both plants and other animals
5
A group of food chains that overlap
6
Smallest unit of an element with all its properties
10
The process of sediment moving from one place to another
12
A substance made of only one kind of atom
13
Nonliving parts of an ecosystem
14
A simple machine made of a bar that pivots on a fixed point
15
A pull or push of any kind
16
Major changes in the body formed during the life cycle of an animal, such as a caterpillar
17
A ball of rock, ice and frozen gases in space
18
The amount of matter in an object compared to the space it takes up
24
The state of matter without a definite shape or volume
25
Materials that let electricity move through them easily
27
A community and its physical environment together
28
The fixed point on a lever
29
The solid rock that forms the Earth's surface
30
An environment that meets all the needs of an organism
31
The measure of an objects change in position over a unit of time
34
The amount of matter in an object
WORD LIST:
ABIOTIC
ATOM
AXIS
BEDROCK
BIOTIC
CARNIVORE
CLAY
COMET
CONDUCTOR
DENSITY
DIVERSITY
ECOSYSTEM
ELEMENT
EROSION
FOODWEB
FORCE
FOSSIL
FRICTION
FULCRUM
GAS
GLACIER
HABITAT
HORIZON
HYPOTHESIS
IGNEOUS
INVERTEBRATE
LEVER
MAGNETICPOLE
MASS
METAMORPHOSIS
OMNIVORE
ORBIT
PRODUCER
SAND
SCREW
SOLUTION
SPEED
VERTEBRATE
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