weather
This weather phenomenon occurs when warm air rises and cool air rushes in, often creating thunderstorms.
What is convection?
A volcano is a hole in the Earth where _______ comes out.
What is lava?
This part of the body supports you and protects your organs.
What is the skeleton?
A hypothesis is an _______ about what you think will happen in an experiment.
What is an educated guess?
This is when water vapor cools down and turns back into liquid droplets, forming clouds.
What is condensation?
This happens when rain falls as tiny frozen drops or ice pellets.
What is hail?
When a volcano erupts, it can also release a cloud of _______ into the air.
What is ash?
The largest bone in your body is your __
What is the femur?
This force pulls objects toward the center of the Earth.
What is gravity?
This is the process when water falls from the clouds as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation?
This weather condition occurs when there is a lot of moisture in the air, making it feel hotter than it actually is.
What is humidity?
Earthquakes happen when the Earth's _______ move.
What are plates?
This bone protects your brain.
What is the skull?
This is the name of the path that Earth follows as it moves around the Sun.
What is an orbit?
This is the movement of water from the ground back into bodies of water like lakes, rivers, and oceans.
What is runoff?
This tool measures the temperature of the air.
What is a thermometer?
A big crack in the Earth where earthquakes happen is called a _______.
: What is a fault?
You have 206 of these in your body.
What are bones?
A group of different species living in the same place and interacting with each other is called a _______.
What is an ecosystem?
This is the process where plants release water vapor into the air from their leaves.
What is transpiration?
These storms are powerful and bring heavy snow and strong winds, reducing visibility and making travel dangerous.
What are blizzards?
The strongest hurricanes are called _____
What are category 5 hurricanes?
This part of your body connects bones to each other.
What are joints?
This planet is the hottest in the solar system, even though it’s not the closest to the Sun.
What is Venus?
This is a large body of water that is smaller than an ocean, and is typically surrounded by land.
What is a lake?