Space Out
This giant red planet is nicknamed "The Red Planet" due to iron rusting on its surface.
A: What is Mars?
This frozen precipitation falls from the sky in winter when atmospheric temperatures drop below freezing.
A: What is snow?
This process happens when liquid water heats up and turns into an invisible gas called water vapor.
A: What is evaporation?
Animals that only eat plants, like deer and rabbits, are given this scientific diet name.
A: What are herbivores?
This is the shaking of the Earth's surface caused by a sudden release of energy along a fault line.
A: What is an earthquake?
This is the closest star to the Earth, providing us with all of our heat and light.
A: What is the Sun?
The weight of the air pressing down on Earth is called this; low amounts usually bring rainy storms.
A: What is air pressure (or atmospheric pressure)?
We see this step of the water cycle every time clouds form in the sky or fog appears on a bathroom mirror.
A: What is condensation?
In a food web, mushrooms and bacteria play this vital role by breaking down dead matter.
A: What are decomposers?
This hot, liquid rock is called magma when it is underground, but changes to this name the second it erupts out of a volcano.
A: What is lava?
This invisible force keeps the moon orbiting Earth and prevents you from floating away during class.
A: What is gravity?
When a warm air mass crashes into a cold air mass, meteorologists call the collision line by this term.
A: What is a front?
The absolute vast majority of Earth’s total water supply—about 97%—is trapped in this specific form.
A: What is saltwater (or oceans)?
Unlike animals, plants are called "producers" because they create their own food using this process.
A: What is photosynthesis?
This is the deepest known place in the world's oceans, plunging nearly 36,000 feet down in the Pacific.
A: What is the Mariana Trench?
It takes the Earth exactly 365.25 days to complete one of these geometric trips around the sun.
A: What is a revolution (or orbit)?
This powerful, swirling funnel cloud is most famously common in a central U.S. region named "Alley".
A: What is a tornado?
This term describes water soaking down into the soil, acting like Earth’s giant natural coffee filter.
A: What is infiltration (or percolation)?
If two different species live closely together and both benefit (like a bee and a flower), it is this type of relationship.
A: What is mutualism?
This giant, frozen river of ice moves incredibly slowly down a mountain, carving out massive valleys over thousands of years.
A: What is a glacier?
This spectacular, colorful light display in the night sky near the North Pole is caused by solar winds hitting Earth's atmosphere.
A: What is the Northern Lights (or Aurora Borealis)?
This is the calm, surprisingly clear center point of a massive spinning hurricane.
A: What is the eye?
Ice caps and glaciers hold the vast majority of Earth's usable supply of this specific type of water.
A: What is freshwater?
This pyramid-shaped diagram shows how energy decreases as it moves up from plants to top predators.
A: What is an energy pyramid?
This ring of volcanoes and intense earthquake activity traces the edges of the Pacific Ocean.
A: What is the Ring of Fire?