Definitions
This type of biology that explores how the different parts of Creation (plants, animals, weather, terrain) work together
This biome is home to conifer, deciduous and evergreen trees.
What is the boreal forest?
This boreal forest animal builds dams as a home.
What is a beaver?
The study of the stars, planets and other objects in outer space.
What is astronomy?
This planet is closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
The phase of the moon when we can only see a sliver.
What is a crescent moon?
This is where a species lives.
What is a habitat?
This biome receives 100 to 400 inches of rain per year.
What is the tropical rainforest?
The crested green basilisk, which lives in the rainforest, can do this.
What is run across water?
A group of stars that make a picture.
What is a constellation?
These planets are made of rocks and metals.
What are jovian planets?
The term used to refer to the moon during the period when we see less and less of it each day.
What is waning?
This is a relationship between creatures in which one or both creatures benefit, and neither is harmed.
What is facilitative?
This biome is home to leopards, giraffes, kudus, and impalas.
What is the savanna?
This animal, whose ears are full of blood vessels, can keep cool in the desert biome.
What is a jack rabbit?
This constellation is "The Hunter".
What is Orion?
This planet's appearance comes from the thick atmosphere and clouds, which reflect a great deal of sunlight.
What is Venus?
This type of eclipse occurs when the moon passes in front of the sun, casting a shadow on the Earth.
What is a solar eclipse?
The process by which plants and algae use sunlight to convert nutrients and minerals into food energy.
What is photosynthesis?
Temperatures in this biome can reach 115 degrees during the day but plunge to 50 degrees at night.
What is the desert?
These desert insects build huge mounds that are both above ground and below, and can house other animals.
What are termites?
This constellation is known as "The Seven Sisters".
What is the Pleiades?
This planet has the most moons.
What is Jupiter?
This refers to the radiant halo of extremely hot gases that surrounds the sun.
What is the corona?
The imaginary line around the center of the globe, at equal distance from the North and South poles.
What is the equator?
This type of wetland receives water and nutrients from surrounding streams or groundwater.
What is a fen?
Caribou, who live in the tundra, mainly feed on this plant.
What is lichen?
This is about 6 trillion miles.
Beyond the orbit of Neptune, these are millions of small, icy objects that travel around the sun.
What is the Kuiper Belt?
This full moon occurs only in September.
What is a Harvest Moon?