5 th Grade Edition Fall 2012, Version 1.0

Living Things Energy Earth’s Surface RecyclingWater

Living Things for 200 This term refers to animals with backbones.

Living Things for 200 What are vertebrates?

Living Things for 400 A major difference between plants and animals is that plants make their own ____ and animals do not.

Living Things for 400 What is food?

Living Things for 600 This pigment causes a plant to appear green and absorbs visible light from the Sun to provide the energy for photosynthesis.

Living Things for 600 What is chlorophyll?

Living Things for 800 A term for all plants that have no tissues/vessels to transport water and food (algae and moss are examples of this type of plant).

Living Things for 800 What is a non-vascular plant?

Living Things for 1000 These organisms, such as mushrooms, mold, and yeast, may be one- or many-celled, they absorb their food (decomposers) and reproduce by spores or hyphae.

Living Things for 1000 What are fungi?

Energy for 200 This sedimentary rock is made from decayed organic matter and is the most abundant fossil fuel in the world.

Energy for 200 What is coal?

Energy for 400 These are the light colors visible to the human eye that are in the electromagnetic spectrum (energy).

Energy for 400 What are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet (ROYGBIV)?

Energy for 600 Natural gas can be made by tremendous heat and pressure deep underground. These kinds of rocks are formed by this same type of heat and pressure.

Energy for 600 What are metamorphic rocks?

Energy for 800 This process uses the sun’s energy in plants to make food from carbon dioxide and water.

Energy for 800 What is photosynthesis?

Energy for 1000 This metal is found in rocks all over the world and is a main fuel source used in nuclear power plants. Hint: It is mostly found as a mineral called uraninite.

Energy for 1000 What is uranium?

Earth’s Surface for 200 This type of energy can be harnessed when it travels from the earth’s core towards the surface..

Earth’s Surface for 200 What is geothermal?

Earth’s Surface for 400 Out of the four main layers of the Earth (crust, mantle, inner core, and outer core), all living things reside in or upon this.

Earth’s Surface for 400 What is the crust?

Earth’s Surface for 600 The movement along three types of plate tectonic boundaries (divergent, convergent, and sliding) can cause this natural disaster.

Earth’s Surface for 600 What are earthquakes?

Earth’s Surface for 800 The percentage of the Earth’s surface covered by the oceans.

Earth’s Surface for 800 What is 70 percent?

Earth’s Surface for 1000 The movement of weathered rocks; one way this occurs is when humans change landscapes (such as removing plants) and expose loose soil.

Earth’s Surface for 1000 What is erosion?

Recycling for 200 To collect used materials to make into new products rather than throwing them away.

Recycling for 200 What is recycling?

Recycling for 400 It is good to recycle batteries because they contain heavy metals such as mercury, lead, cadmium, and nickel. Mercury, lead, cadmium and nickel are examples of the more than 100 of these that make up all matter.

Recycling for 400 What are elements?

Recycling for 600 Look at the materials in the table. For every ton of this material we recycle, we prevent the most carbon dioxide (CO2) from being emitted. MaterialHow Much We Discard Each Year (tons) Recycling Rate (percent) Energy Savings by Recycling (percent relative to making new material) Carbon Emissions Prevented (tons of CO2 per ton of material recycled) Newsprint12,360,00025%45%2.5 Glass11,390,00025%21%0.034 Aluminum1,440,00045%96%10 Plastic #1 (such as soda and water bottles) 940,00031% 1.7

Recycling for 600 What is aluminum?

Recycling for 800 Look at the table. We recover the most of this material (both in weight and as a percentage) from our municipal solid waste (trash). Generation and Recovery from Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), 2009 MaterialWeight GeneratedWeight RecoveredRecovery as a Percent (millions of tons) of Generation Glass % Metals % Paper and Paperboard % Plastics % Rubber and Leather % Textiles % Wood % Other Materials %

Recycling for 800 What is “Paper and Paperboard”?

Recycling for 1000 Look at this graph. To make this graph, you need to collect information about this each year.

Recycling for 1000 What is the weight of yard trimmings that recovered from municipal solid waste (trash)?

Water for 200 This compound is essential for all life to exist.

Water for 200 What is water?

Water for 400 This process involves the breakdown of rocks and objects made from rocks (such as buildings, statues, etc.), and ultimately delivers minerals to the ocean.

Water for 400 What is weathering?

Water for 600 About 97.5 percent of the water on Earth is this type of water; it is a complex mixture of gases (including oxygen) and dissolved solids (including usually around 3.5% sodium chloride). Humans cannot survive by drinking this type of water.

Water for 600 What is salt water or sea water?

Water for 800 This produces much of the Earth’s oxygen and serves as the base of the ocean’s ecosystem.

Water for 800 What is phytoplankton?

Water for 1000 This happens to the temperature of ocean water as you go deeper in the ocean.

Water for 1000 What is decreases?

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