Vocab
Planets
Earth, moon, and sun
fossils and rock layers
weather
100
The amount of time it takes for the Earth to spin around on complete turn.
What is a day
100
This is the largest planet.
What is Jupiter
100
The sun appears to move across the sky because it rotates on this.
What is its axis
100
A plant or animal that once lived on Earth but has died.
What is extinct
100
This insrument is used to measure the direction of the wind.
What is a wind sock or wind vane
200
A series of events that repeat over and over again.
What is a cycle
200
This planet has many rings that are made out of rocks and dust.
What is Saturn
200
There are different shapes of the moon because it doesn't always face this.
What is the Earth
200
These plants and animals exist right now or have existed within modern history.
What are modern life forms
200
This tool is used to measure the amount of precipitation that falls
What is a rain gauge
300
To move completely around another object.
What is to orbit
300
This planet is closest to the sun.
What is Mercury
300
Which of these is the largest, the sun, the moon, or the earth.
What is the sun
300
Rock layers and fossils help scientists determine the history of the Earth by doing these things.
What is show the form of the plants/animals in rock, show sequence of life forms from many years ago, and explain how the environment has changed over time.
300
Hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis, thunderstorms are all considered this.
What is severe weather
400
The amount of space an object takes up.
What is its volume
400
This is the only planet that has life on it
What is the Earth
400
The sun appears smaller than the moon because of this reason.
What is the farther away an object is the smaller it appears, or the sun is further away than the moon.
400
This rock layer is the oldest.
What is the bottom layer
400
This word means water that falls in some form from the clouds.
What is precipitation
500
A way of dividing time into days, months, and years.
What is a calender
500
It is considered a dwarf planet.
What is Pluto
500
The moon has different phases, we refer to the change in the size of the moon as this.
What is waxing and waning
500
This is evidence of a plant or animal that lived long ago.
What is a fossil
500
This measures the temperature of something.
What is a thermometer.
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