Weather and Climate
Describes the condition of the air outdoors, such as temperature, cloud cover, wind speed, and rainfall.
what is weather?
The path one object takes as it revolves around another object in space.
What is orbit?
The star at the center of our solar system that supplies heat and light to Earth; its enormous gravity keeps the solar system in orbit.
What is the Sun?
All of the living and non-living things and all of their interactions in an area.
What is the Ecosystem?
A group of organisms with similar characteristics that allow them to reproduce
What is Species?
The set of weather conditions that prevail in a region year after year.
What is Climate?
Making a complete spin on an axis.
What is Rotation?
The planet that all known life exists on.
What is Earth?
A single, self-contained living thing.
What is an Organism?
Any characteristic that helps a plant or animal survive in a specific environment
What is an Adaptation?
Rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls from clouds in the sky.
What is precipitation?
Making a complete turn or orbit around an axis or center.
what is Revolution?
The Inner Planets
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars?
An organism that uses sunlight to make its own food for energy
What is a producer?
Characteristics that blend in with the surrounding environment and increase chances of survival
What is Camouflage?
How hot or cold something is.
what is Temperature ?
Causes day and night
Takes 24 hours
What is Earth Rotation?
The Outer planets
What is Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
An organism that gets energy from eating another organism
What is a consumer?
A physical characteristic that an organism is born with that is passed to the organism from its parents.
What is an Inherited Physical Trait?
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is Humidity ?
Take 365 days
What is Earth orbiting the sun?
Divides the inner planets from the outer planets
What is the Asteroid Belt?
An organism that consumes dead or nonliving biomass without need for internal digestion
What is a decomposer?
Animal behavior that develops from observation or instruction.
what is Learned Behavior?