General Science 1 (Semester 2 Vocabulary)

2. — Refers to feeding levels in an energy pyramid
6. — A non-native species that disrupts a new ecosystem
10. — Natural disaster most common on the west side of the Americas
12. — Plate boundary where plates move apart
14. — Long underwater mountain chain where seafloor spreads apart
19. — Natural disaster common in the central plains
21. — Limitations on a design, like time or materials
22. — Synthetic material made from oil
23. — An animal hunted for food (like a moose)
24. — Organism that eats other organisms for energy
25. — Preserved remains that provide evidence for continental drift
26. — Synthetic material made from heating sand
28. — Requirements a design must meet
29. — Type of species that has a major impact on its ecosystem (e.g., elephants)
32. — Natural disaster that forms over warm ocean water
33. — The variety of all species, genes, and ecosystems

1. — The process of breaking rocks down into smaller bits called sediment
3. — A first model built to test a design (like one made of spaghetti and a marshmallow)
4. — Molten rock beneath the Earth's surface
5. — Relationship where one organism benefits and the other is harmed
7. — The movement of sediment from one place to another by wind, water, or gravity
8. — Process plants use to make energy from the sun, water, and carbon dioxide
9. — The modern science describing how plates move (formerly continental drift)
11. — An animal that hunts another for food (like a wolf)
13. — Rock formed from cooled lava or magma
15. — What flows through a food web, decreasing up each level
16. — Organism in a food web that makes its own food
17. — Relationship where both organisms benefit
18. — Plate boundary where plates collide, forming mountains
20. — Small bits of broken-down rock
27. — Rock formed from compacted and cemented bits of sediment
30. — When a species no longer exists
31. — Deep feature of the ocean floor formed where plates meet