Science Ch.1,2
Animal that is active at night
What is Nocturnal
Scientists who study the structure of the earth
What are geologists?
"King of the Birds"
What is the golden eagle?
Largest group of freshwater lakes
What are the Great Lakes?
World's Largest Tree
What is the General Sherman Tree?
Smallest of all green plants
The boundary between the earth's crust and the mantle
What is the Moho? No extra points for saying Mohorovicic Discontinuity
What is Western Hemisphere?
Military leader who led his soldiers against the Sioux at the Battle of the Little Big Horn
Who was George Custer?
Deepest Canyon in the USA
What is Hells Canyon?
What are guard cells?
Large clouds of gas and dust floating around in space
What is a nebula?
What is the boreal forest?
Earliest known but very advanced Eastern Indian civilization
Who were the Hopewell?
First document of self-government in the New World
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Spider that makes a net small enough to hold between legs
What is ogre-faced spider?
The study of caves
What is speleology?
Large mass of ice that flows slowly over land
Capital of Newfoundland and Labrador
What is St. John's?
Colony that was the first site to have log cabins
What is Delaware?
Threadlike structures in a cell that determine the characteristics of the organism
What are chromosomes?
A volcano that produces lava fountains or fire curtains
What is a Hawaiian Volcano?
Most famous missionary to Canadian Inuit and neighbors
Who was Sir Wilfred Grenfell?
Name for beads made of shells used as gifts and money by Indians
What is wampum?
Stretch of highlands that separates the rivers of North America
What is the Great Divide?