Extreme Earth
What on Earth?
"Bio" Facts
Water Water Everywhere
What uses the energy?
100
Of Earth's oceans, this one is the largest.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
100
This is the term for animal species that are at risk of becoming extinct.
What are endangered animals?
100
This is a large area with similar plants and animals that can live in a specific kind of environment.
What is a biome?
100
This lake is the largest in North America.
What is Lake Superior?
100
This appliance heats coils to cook part of your breakfast.
What is a toaster?
200
This mountain is the highest place on Earth.
What is Mt. Everest?
200
These are resources that we can never run out of, such as wind and solar energy.
What are renewable resources?
200
The name for a person who studies living organisms and their relationships to one another.
What is a biologist?
200
This Lake has a high density due to its salt content.
What is the Great Salt Lake?
200
This uses a large amount of energy so that you can take hot showers.
What is a hot water tank?
300
This river is the longest river on Earth.
What is the Nile River (in Africa)?
300
This is the term we use when trees or forests are cut down and cleared away from an area.
What is deforestation?
300
This is the term used for the study of life.
What is biology?
300
When we think of piranhas, we think of this river.
What is the Amazon river?
300
This appliance uses a lot of energy because it is always cooling or freezing.
What is a refrigerator/freezer?
400
The deepest ocean point can be found in this ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
400
This is a method of solid waste disposal in which refuse is buried between layers of dirt so as to fill in or reclaim low-lying ground.
What is a landfill?
400
This is waste that is capable of being decomposed.
What is biodegradable?
400
This amount is approximately how much water the average person should drink each day.
What is eight 8-oz. glasses of water?
400
This home appliance uses energy to spin and keep you cool.
What is a fan?
500
In this place in A.D. 79, a volcano erupted that devastated a town, leaving lava-coated people in it wake.
What is Pompeii?
500
This is a thin zone of crushed rock separating blocks of the earth's crust. Earthquakes can occur in these areas.
What is a fault?
500
This term means "the variety of life on Earth."
What is biodiversity?
500
Scientists say this is causing Earth's glaciers to melt.
What is global warming or the pollution caused by burning fossil fuels?
500
This device uses energy to rinse and spin.
What is a washing machine?
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