Earth in Motion
The reason that the Earth experiences day and night.
What is Earth's rotation?
The energy source that drives the water cycle.
What is the Sun?
The type of rock formed from layers of sediment.
What is sedimentary rock?
The term for non-living factors, like temperature, in an ecosystem
What are abiotic factors?
This is the reason birds have wings.
What is to help them fly?
The time of day that shadows are the shortest.
What is noon?
The process that forms clouds in the water cycle.
What is condensation?
The natural process that forms fossil fuels.
What is the decomposition of ancient plants and animals?
The process by which energy moves from one organism to another in an ecosystem.
What is a food chain?
An example of this is that a girl has natural red hair.
What is an example of an inherited trait?
The time it takes Earth to complete one full rotation.
What is 24 hours?
When water droplets get heavy and fall from the sky.
What is precipitation?
A landform created by wind erosion and deposition.
What is a sand dune?
The process of cutting down trees.
What is deforestation?
The reason that turtle hatchings return to the sea without being taught.
What is an example of an instinctive behavior?
The imaginary line that Earth spins on, creating day and night.
What is Earth's axis?
The step in the water cycle that comes before condensation.
What is evaporation?
A landform created when a river deposits sediment.
What is a delta?
A mushroom fulfills this role in an ecosystem.
What is a decomposer?
A fox grows thick fur in the winter and loses it in the summer. This is why that helps it survive.
What is thick fur keeps it warm and thin fur keeps it cool?
The direction Earth rotates, causing the Sun to appear to rise in the East and set in the West.
What is counterclockwise?
The process where water vapor turns into liquid water droplets.
What is condensation?
The cause of canyon formation.
What is water erosion?
A pond starts drying up. This will happen to the fish and frogs that live there.
What is some will move to another pond and some might not survive?
A sunflower turns to face the sun as it moves across the sky. This is why that helps the plant to survive.
What is it helps the plant get more sunlight to make food?