Classifying Life
To sort things by their traits is to ___________.
classify
To change to an environment for survival is to ______.
adapt
Traits you get from your parents are _________.
inherited
The Earth's layers are...
crust, mantle, core (outer and inner)
The effect of Earth's climate getting warmer is called _________________.
Global Warming
Something with a backbone is a _________.
vertebrate
__________ helps and animal hide.
camouflage
Inherited traits are passed to offspring in their _______.
genes
when plates slip or rub eachother it can cause an ___________.
earthquake
Carbon Dioxide is a _________________, this means that it traps heat in Earth's atmosphere.
greenhouse gas
Something without a backbone is an ___________.
invertebrate
A ____________ is one kind of animal.
species
Your body is made of trillions of tiny pieces called _______.
cells
The cracks between plates are called _________.
faults
Things like coal, oil and natural gas are ___________.
fossil fuels
____________ animals use energy from food to make heat inside their body.
Warm-blooded
A ___________ is the offspring of a set of parents.
generation
_____ is a set of instructions that tell a cell what to become.
DNA
A plate under a continent is called a _____________.
A plate under the ocean is called an _____________.
continental plate
oceanic plate
Liquid fuel made from plants is called _________.
biofuel
__________ animals take in heat from the outside.
Cold-blooded
The slow change of generations of species over a long time is called _________.
evolution
Deoxyribonucleic Acid is _____.
DNA
The Earth formed ______________ years ago.
4.5 billion years ago (4,500,000,000)
As climate change occurs, the atmosphere gets warmer. This causes weather to ________________.
get stronger and harder to predict.