Weather & Water Cycle
The movement of water from liquid to gas.
What is evaporation?
The process of rocks being broken down into smaller pieces over time.
What is weathering?
The broadest level of classification for living organisms.
What is domain?
Blood vessels that carry oxygen-rich blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
This organ absorbs nutrients during digestion.
What is the small intestine?
The process where water vapor turns back into liquid water to form clouds.
What is condensation?
The movement of sediment from one location to another by wind, water, or ice.
What is erosion?
The scientific study of how living things are classified.
What is taxonomy?
The central organ that pumps blood throughout the body.
What is the heart?
This system removes waste from the body
What is the excretory system?
The boundary where two different air masses meet.
What is a front?
A triangular landform created by sediment at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
In the scientific name Canis lupus, this term is represented by Canis.
What is genus?
Tiny blood vessels where gas and nutrient exchange take place.
What are capillaries?
Chewing food into smaller pieces is this type of digestion.
What is mechanical digestion?
The primary cause of wind on Earth.
What is uneven heating of Earth’s surface by the sun?
The solid, rocky part of the Earth.
What is the geosphere?
Scientists use scientific names to avoid this problem.
What is confusion caused by different common names?
These cells carry oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body.
What are red blood cells?
Bile is produced by this organ and stored in the gallbladder.
What is the liver?
What happens when a cold front meets a warm air mass?
What is cold air pushing under warm air, forcing warm air to rise quickly and causing storms?
A large, flat area of land raised higher than the surrounding land.
What is a plateau?
List the levels of classification from largest to smallest.
What are Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species?
The respiratory system brings oxygen into the lungs, and this system delivers it to cells throughout the body.
What is the circulatory system?
Chemical digestion primarily begins here in the human body.
What is the mouth?