Plants and Animals
When an animal uses its body and the environment to hide.
What is camouflage?
This is the body part responsible for pumping and circulating blood throughout the body.
What is the heart?
This is the name we use to refer to our Sun and the planets that surround it.
What is "The Solar System?"
This is a force that stops an object from moving.
What is friction?
When the temperature is low enough, water in clouds will freeze and then fall to the ground as this substance. With enough luck, it will be fluffy enough to play with.
What is snow?
This word describes an animal that is awake at night and asleep during the day.
What is nocturnal?
This internal organ (an organ inside our body) is responsible for allowing us to breathe.
What are the lungs?
This word is used to describe an object traveling around a planet or star due to gravity.
What is orbit?
This is the force required for a plane to go up and fly.
What is lift?
These locations, with many trees and frequent wet weather, are home to most of the world's animals and help provide Earth with fresh oxygen.
What are rainforests?
Bones, shells, and even leaves from plants and animals that lived long ago. After millions of years, they turn into rock and are found underground.
What are fossils?
This is a special digit on our hands that allows humans to grip and use tools.
What are thumbs?
This is a trained person, usually a special scientist, who travels out into space.
What is an astronaut?
These are the three states of matter.
What is solid, liquid, and gas?
We use this word after a number to say how hot or cold the temperature is.
What are "degrees?"
These animals are known for their two body segments and eight legs. They do not have wings or antennae.
What are arachnids?
This is the gas that we breathe in with our lungs and is essential to human life.
What is Oxygen?
A collection of stars circling a black hole. Ours is called "The Milky Way."
What is a galaxy?
These tiny particles are responsible for electricity. They create electricity when they move from atom to atom.
What are electrons?
This frozen rain can range in size from small pellets to as large as baseballs.
What is hail?
This word describes an animal that is awake during the day and asleep at night
What is diurnal?
This is something found on every person's digits. It is unique to each person. Some shapes it makes are spirals, loops, whorls, and arches.
What are fingerprints?
This term refers to scientists who study space from Earth, often using telescopes and other tools.
What is an astronomer?
The study of light and how the colors of light behave.
What is chromatics?
This word is used to describe any form of water that falls from clouds
What is precipitation?