Earth and Space Science
What is the name of the layer of Earth where we live?
What is the atmosphere?
What is matter?
What is anything that has mass and takes up space?
What do we call living things?
What are organisms?
What is the process by which water moves from the surface of the Earth to the atmosphere and back?
What is the water cycle?
What causes day and night on Earth?
What is the rotation of the Earth on its axis?
What is the force that pulls objects toward Earth?
What is gravity?
What part of the plant absorbs water and nutrients?
What are the roots?
What is the Earth's outer layer called?
What is the crust?
What is the main source of energy for Earth?
What is the Sun?
Name three states of matter.
What are solid, liquid, and gas?
What is the process by which plants make their own food?
What is photosynthesis?
What are the four main layers of the Earth?
What are the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core?
Name one way that humans can reduce their impact on the environment
What is recycling?
What is an example of a chemical change?
What is burning wood?
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Name one similarity between plants and animals.
What is both need energy to survive?
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What is the difference between a comet and an asteroid?
What is a comet is made of ice and dust, while an asteroid is made of rock and metal?
What is the term for a large body of ice that moves slowly over land?
What is a glacier?
What is the process called when a liquid turns into a gas?
What is evaporation?
What is the role of decomposers in an ecosystem?
What is they break down dead material and recycle nutrients back into the soil?
What phenomenon occurs when the Moon passes directly between the Earth and the Sun?
What is a solar eclipse?