Water Cycle
What is the process of water turning into vapor and rising into the air?
What is evaporation?
Which planet is known as the "Red Planet"?
What is Mars?
What is the largest organ of the human body?
What is the skin?
What do we call the swirling winds that form a funnel shape and can cause damage on the ground?
What is a tornado?
This is the name of the first astronaut to walk on the Moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
What do we call the process when water vapor cools and changes back into liquid form to create clouds?
What is condensation?
What is the largest planet in our solar system?
What is Jupiter?
What is the name of the muscle that helps you breathe in and out?
What is the diaphragm?
What term refers to the study of weather and the atmosphere?
What is meteorology?
This is the phase of the Moon when it looks like a half-circle in the sky.
What is a quarter moon?
Name the four main stages of the water cycle.
What are evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection?
Which planet is closest to the Sun?
What is Mercury?
What part of your body is made of the same material as your hair and is the only part that can grow back if cut?
What are fingernails?
What is a long period of very dry weather called?
What is a drought?
The Moon doesn’t make its own light. It reflects light from this. Question:
What is the Sun?
When rainwater flows over the surface of the ground into rivers, lakes, or oceans, what is this process called?
What is runoff?
What do we call the force that keeps the planets orbiting around the Sun?
What is gravity?
What do you call the tiny blood vessels that connect arteries and veins?
What are capillaries?
This tool measures air pressure and helps predict changes in the weather.
What is a barometer?
This is the phase of the Moon when it looks like a full circle in the sky.
What is a full moon?
Name two forms of precipitation.
What are rain and snow? (Also acceptable: sleet, hail)
What is the name of the galaxy that contains our solar system?
What is the Milky Way?
What is the largest bone in the human body?
What is the femur bone?
his colorful arc appears in the sky when sunlight passes through raindrops
What is a rainbow?
This word describes when the Moon looks larger and brighter in the sky because it is closer to Earth than usual.
What is a supermoon?