astronomy
The study of astronomy is everything in the universe beyond Earth's atmosphere.
What is astronomy?
The language a lot of scientific words are in.
What is Latin
The network of thin-walled blood vessels that connect the smallest arteries (arterioles) and the smallest veins (venules).
What are capillaries?
It is essential to all life (as we know it) on Earth)
What is Water?
The total amount of dissolved salts in seawater.
Salinity
Small and recently re-classified as a dwarf planet, this is the littlest planet found furthest out in our solar system.
What is Pluto?
A young plant that has just begun to grow and emerge from the seed.
What is a seedling
The impulse-conducting cells of the brain, nervous system, and spine.
What are neurons?
The percentage of fresh water on Earth
What is 3%?
What is a seamount?
a submerged (underwater) mountain
This giant mechanism orbits the earth and can see things and places very far away in space. It also takes pictures that are sent back to Earth for scientists to research.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
Latin word for seed.
What is sperm
The longest bone in an adult human.
What is the femur?
Has a Positive and Negative end, the characteristic of water that allows it to "stick" to itself and to other particles that have a charge
What is Polar?
The amount of time it takes a wave to pass a fixed point.
wave period
This is a chunk of matter that enters our atmosphere and is heated by friction with the air to the point of burning up as it falls towards the Earth.
What is a meteor?
The two animal pollinators that are nocturnal
What are moths and bats
The three types of muscle tissues that make up the muscular system.
The three types of muscle tissues that make up the muscular system.
The average rainfall in North Carolina
What are 48 inches? or What is 4 feet?
Currents far below the surface formed by differences in water density are called _______ currents
deep
The sun's rays strike Earth most directly along here.
What is the equator?
The substance at the bottom of a flower attracts animals to it. While they are trying to eat this sweet substance, they get pollen on their bodies.
What is nectar
A tubular projection attached to the large intestine is located at the lower right side of the abdomen.
What is the appendix?
Watershed
What is a small area of land that drains into a stream or wetland?
Why is the Earth hotter near the Equator than it is at the North and South Poles?
The equator receives more direct sunlight than the poles, which makes the equator warmer than the poles.