Plants
The part of a sunflower plant that absorbs water and nutrients?
What is stems
A rotating funnel-shaped cloud with strong winds and thunderstorms
What is a tornado
The third planet from the sun
What is Earth
What ocean do we live closest to?
What is the Atlantic Ocean
Name a natural resource of Virginia
What is forests (trees), farmable land, coal, sand and aggregates (rocks), wildlife and aquatic organisms, clean water and air, and beautiful scenery
Water includes groundwater, lakes, reservoirs, rivers, bays, and the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the process that allows plants to convert light energy into food energy?
What is photosynthesis
The two scales we use to measure temperature
What is Fahrenheit and Celsius
Earth makes a complete revolution around the Sun about once every
What is a year
The current that impacts Virginia
What is the Gulf Stream
What is the best tool for measuring the temperature of lake water
What is a thermometer
One way seeds travel
What is wind, animal waste, explosion or water
Which do meteorologists use to measure the amount of precipitation that falls during a storm?
What is a rain gauge
The cause of tides
What is the moon's gravitational pull
What is the deepest part of the ocean?
What is ocean trenches
Which is not a consumer. A butterfly, wasp, bullfrog or tree
What is a tree
Which gas is given off by plants?
What is oxygen
Tornadoes are most likely to be produced from which type of cloud?
What is Cumulonimbus
The number of planets in the solar system
What is 8
The three ways we classify ocean animals
(hint based on the way they move)
What is floaters, swimmers, non moving/bottom
Where does the energy in a food chain come from?
What is the sun
The substance that makes plants green
What is chlorophyll
People who study the atmosphere and weather
What is a meteorologist
Why we have seasons
What is Earth's axial tilt
Most marine organisms live along here
What is the continental shelf
The watershed we live in
What is the Chesapeake Bay watershed