Astronomy
The sun is a ______________.
What is a star?
a consumer that hunts and eats another consumer
What is a predator?
the different shapes the moon appears as throughout the month
What are phases?
The solid part of the earth (includes mountains and other landforms)
What is the geosphere (or lithosphere)?
Name two types of precipitation.
What is (rain, snow, sleet, hail, freezing rain)?
It takes __________ for the earth to rotate once on its axis. This causes ________ .
What is 24 hours?
What is day and night?
a living thing that makes its own food through photosynthesis
What is a producer?
Name two types of energy
Various answers
All the water on earth
What is the hydrosphere?
When liquid water on the surface turns into a gas
What is evaporation?
It takes __________ for the earth to revolve once around the sun.
This revolution, as well as the tilt of the earth's axis, causes __________.
What is 365 (or 365 1/4) days?
What is the seasons?
Where all living things get their energy from (it starts all food chains)
What is the sun?
Which type of energy is energy of motion?
What is kinetic?
All living things on the earth
What is the biosphere?
When water vapor from the air turns back to a liquid
What is condensation?
This is the season we experience in the northern hemisphere when the north pole is tipped towards the sun.
What is summer?
a combination of multiple food chains
What is a food web?
the planet closest to the sun
What is Mercury?
The gases found surrounding earth
What is the atmosphere?
This type of precipitation is another name for freezing rain
What is sleet?
The average length of time it takes sunlight to reach earth from the sun
What is 8 minutes?
the predator at the top of the food chain
What is an apex predator?
the gas that plants give off
What is oxygen?
A volcano erupts, sending gases up in the air.
Which two spheres are interacting in this example?
What are the geosphere and the atmosphere?
When water gathers together after falling as precipitation
What is accumulation?