Continents
Continents/Countries
Vocabulary
Extinction
Scientific Method
100

This continent is where you live.

North America

100

This is the coldest continent.

Antarctica

100
This is when over half of all plant and animal species go extinct.

mass extinction

100

Scientists believed what crashed into Earth causing massive volcanic eruptions all around the world.

asteroid

100

The first step of the scientific method where you use your five senses.

observation

200

This continent is south of North America.

South America

200

This continent is north of Africa and east of Asia.

Europe

200

This is a bowl-shaped hole in the ground made by something crashing into it.

crater

200

This is the extinction that killed the dinosaurs.

K-T Extinction
200

This is the second step of the scientific method where you start to think and ponder based on your observations.

question

300

This continent is south of the continent of Europe.

Africa

300

This island country is off the southwest coast of Africa.

Madagascar

300

This is a massive ocean wave caused by an earthquake or volcanic eruption.

tsunami
300

This particular extinction was the biggest mass extinction and it happened over 252 million years ago and 9 out of 10 species went extinct.

The Great Dying or the Permian Extinction

300

This is the third step of the scientific method and it is an educated guess.

hypothesis

400

This continent is to the west of Europe.

Asia

400

This is the supercontinent that scientists believed existed millions of years ago.

Pangea

400

This is something that is about to happen.

impending

400

This caused the Permian Extinction or The Great Dying

massive volcanic eruptions

400

This is the fourth step of the scientific method when you set up an experiment to prove if you are right or wrong.

Test the hypothesis

500

This continent is an island continent.

Australia

500

Ancient rock cliffs and evidence of volcanic activity was found in the rocks of this Asian country.

Siberia

500

This is a living plant, animal, or single-celled life form.

organism

500
This is the number of how many mass extinctions happened in Earth's history.

5

500

This is the final step of the scientific method where you analyze the data and information obtained from the experiment.

Drawing Conclusions

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