Animals and Insects
A mammal is an animal that has a backbone and is covered in this.
What is hair or fur?
A dry region that gets very little rainfall each year.
What is a desert?
The Earth rotates around this bright yellow/orange star.
What is the Sun?
This is a repeated pattern of weather and temperature throughout the year, such as summer or winter.
What is a season?
This is what we call how fast or how slow an object is moving.
What is Speed?
An insect spins this sticky trap to catch its food.
What is a spiderweb?
Organisms like insects and fungi that break down dead plants and animals, recycling essential nutrients back into the soil.
What is a decomposer?
The name of the Galaxy we live in. A candy bar is named after it.
What is the Milky Way?
This is the part of your body that pumps blood.
What is your heart?
The tongue is the organ we use for this sense.
What is taste?
A toxic chemical some animals make to protect themselves from being eaten.
What is poison?
Plants that create their own food from sunlight, forming the base of an ecosystem's food chain.
What is a producer?
A massive ball of hot gas that shines bright in the night sky.
What is a star?
The main job of the flower on a plant is to make these so the plant can grow new plants.
What is a seed?
This body part is protected by your skull.
What is the brain?
This animal works hard for us and lives every place people do--on every continent on earth.
What is a dog?
An animal that hunts other animals for food.
What is a predator?
One of these hit the earth 65 million years ago and killed the dinosaurs.
What is an asteroid?
The number of months it takes for a human baby to fully develop in the mother's womb.
What is nine months?
This type of energy is what you use to turn on a light bulb or run a TV.
What is electric energy?
Name the four stages of the life cycle of a butterfly.
What is egg, larva, cocoon and adult?
This large predator has the strongest bite force in the ocean.
What is a great white shark?
This force pulls objects down toward the center of the Earth.
What is Gravity?
Non-native plants or animals that invade an ecosystem and cause it harm, often brought there by by humans.
What is an invasive species?
These hard, protective layers cover the body of a turtle or a crab.
What is a shell?