martes, 19 de octubre de 2010

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Living things and their enviroment , we need abiotics things to live : for example , the flower - the soil and soil is nonlivinthing , Animals - the water , water also is an nonlivingt thing. Enviroment is where an biotic and abiotic interact each other. the ecology is the study of how living things interact in their enviroment. population is where a organism of the same specie live at the same time. Community is the population living in an area. Habitat is where someone live. And NICHE is the role in your enviroment.

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Energy resource is Althernative energy, Geothermal energy, and Biomass .
In Brasil don`t use fossilfues, they use biomass from the corn. althernative energy is : wind energy, water, solar and geothermal energy. Geothermal energy is the Earth`s internal energy.

martes, 28 de septiembre de 2010

EARTH´S ATMOSPHERE

VOCABULARY:

renewable resource: a resource that can be replaced in a short period of time.


ozone layer: a layer of ozone gas in the atmosphere


fossil fuel: a fuel formed from the decay.


smog: a mixture of smoke and fog


acid rain: moisture that falls to Earth after being mixed with wasted from burne fossil fuels.

EARTH´S ROCK AND SOIL

VOCABULARY:

rock: a natural formed solid in the crust.

igneous rock: rock formed when it melts and then cools.

sedimentary rock: rock made of bits of matter joined together.

fossil: any remains or prin of living things ofthe past.

metamorphic rock: a rock formd under heat and pressure from another kind of rock.

humus: decayed plant or animal material in soil.

pollution: adding any harmful  substance to earth´s land, water, or air.

rock cycle: rocks changing from one form into another in a never-ending series of process.

EARTH´S CHANGING CRUST

VOCABULARY:

fault: a crack in the crust.


geoloist: a scientist who studies Earth.


lava : magma that reach Earth´s surface.


magma: hot molten rock deep bellow Earth´s surface.


weathering: the breking down of rocks in pices.


erosion:the picking up and carriying away of pieces of rock.


deposition: the dropping off of bits of eroded rock.


meteorite: a chunk of rock from space that strickes a surface.


VOCABULARY:

solar system: the Sun and the objects arround it.


planet: any of the eight large bodies of  that travel around the Sun and shine by reflecting its light.

gravity: a force of attraction, pull, between any object and any other object around it


 inertia: the tendency of an object to keep moving in straight line.

lithosphere. the hard, outer layer of Earth, about 100km thick.


crust: the rocky surface that make up the top of the lithosphere.


resource: any material that help support life on Earth.

hydrosphere: Earth´s water.
plate tectonics