Biosphere
A line of animals that eat each other
What is a food chain?
The line that divides the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere on the globe
The Equator
The only element that is less dense when frozen
Water
Melted rock
What is Magma?
Scientists who study outer space
What are Astronomers?
The biome that includes evergreens and is mostly found above 50 degrees north latitude
What is the Taiga?
The one word name for a mixture of ice snow and rain
What is sleet?
The 3 phases of water
What are Liquid, Solid, and Gas?
A narrow piece of land that is surrounded on three sides by water.
What is a Peninsula?
The position in any solar system where life could be possible
What is the Habitable Zone or the Goldilocks Zone?
The three layers of the rainforest biome
What are the Understory, the Canopy, and the Emergent Layer?
The force that due to the earth's rotation, forces wind going toward the poles to turn east
What is the Coriolis force?
The motions of the oceans that follow the Moon and the Sun
What are tides?
When water, wind, or another natural element wears something down and then transports it to another area.
What is erosion?
The Earth's invisible sphere that protects us from the Sun's high energy particles and space radiation
What is the Magnetosphere?
A climate zone combined with the plants, animals, and other life-forms that live there.
What is a biome?
The chemical that comprises the majority of our atmosphere
What is Nitrogen?
The world's widest river
What is the Amazon river?
When two tectonic plates slide against each other
What is Transform Motion?
The number of times the earth revolves around the sun in one year
One 😉
The four layers the biosphere is divided into by scientists
What are Ecosystem, Communities, Population, and Organism?
The exact amount of air pressure on one square inch at sea level
What is 14.7 pounds?
The 5 oceans mentioned in our book
What are the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, and Antarctic?
The three stages in the rock cycle in order
What are Igneous, Metamorphic, and Sedimentary?
A colorful light show that can be seen in certain parts of the Earth.
What are Auroras?