Helping the Environment
Natural Disasters
Ancient Plants and Animals
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
Food, water, and air are all considered __________.
What is a resource
100
Soil and nutrients may be washed away as a result of a _________.
What is a flood
100
The remains of something that lived long ago are called ________
What is fossils
100
An animal that hunts other animals for food is called a _________.
What are predators
100
A large cat that became extinct 10,000 years ago due to climate change is called a _________-__________ ____.
What is a Saber-toothed Cat
200
To use something again is to _________ it.
What is reuse
200
When there is no rain for a long time, a _________ can occur.
What is a drought
200
When there are no more of a living thing alive, they are ________.
What is extinct
200
When animals are struggling with other animals to survive, they are in ______________.
What is competition
200
A type of tree that became extinct because of dry weather and disease is called a __. _______ _______ ______.
What is a St. Helena Olive Tree
300
When you use less of something you _________.
What is reduce
300
A natural disaster that happens when dry land becomes covered by water is a ____________.
What is a flood
300
The Saharan Cypress is ____________ because there are few of these trees left.
What is endangered
300
What do you call something that helps an animal survive, such as a giraffe's long neck.
What is an adaptation
300
Scientists can tell what animals ate by studying their _______.
What is teeth
400
If you __________ your old aluminum cans, companies can make them into new cans.
What is recycle
400
Droughts may lead to _______ _________.
What is a wild fire
400
Panda bears are endangered partly because people are destroying their _________.
What is a habitat
400
All the populations in an ecosystem is called a ____________.
What is a community.
400
What is an ancient animal that used it's trunk similar to an elephant?
What is Wooly Mammoth
500
Harmful material that can damage the air, water, or land is called ______________.
What is pollution
500
If a _______ or harmful insect such as a gypsy moth spreads throughout a forest, it may destroy an entire forest.
What is a disease
500
What is the time period called when ice covered most of the land?
What is the Ice Age
500
All the members of one type of organism in an ecosystem make up a ____________.
What is population
500
Scientists learn how animals moved by studying their ______.
What is bones
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