Animal Wonders
This aquatic mammal is known for its playful intelligence and using echolocation to find food.
Dolphin
This part of a plant grows underground and absorbs water and nutrients
Roots
The instrument used to measure the temperature of the air.
Thermometer
A group of living things and their non-living environment interacting as a system.
An Ecosystem
Discovery Channel
The only mammal capable of true sustained flight, often seen darting through the night sky.
Bat
This process uses sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into food for plants
Photosynthesis
What do we call a violent, rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground?
Tornado
This type of ecosystem is characterized by very low rainfall and includes animals adapted to conserve water.
Desert
True or False, Sharks lose around 2,000 teeth in a lifetime?
False, Sharks lose up to 30,000 teeth in a lifetime.
This arboreal herbivorous marsupial is native to Australia and can sleep for 18 to 22 hours a day
Koala
This specialized structure on fruiting plants contains pollen and is often brightly colored to attract pollinators.
Flower
This type of severe tropical storm forms over warm ocean waters and has strong rotating winds and heavy rain.
Hurricane (or typhoon/cyclone)
This term describes animals that only eat plants.
Herbivores
True or False, Sharks have been alive since dinosaurs?
True, Sharks have been alive 400 million years.
These river animals hold hands while they sleep so none of them get lost.
Otters
What is the common name for the type of plant that produces cones and keeps its leaves year-round, like a pine tree?
Conifer (or evergreen)
What is the scientific term for the total amount of water vapor in the air?
Humidity
What is the specific role or job of an organism within its ecosystem, including where it lives and how it obtains food?
A niche
Shark skin has this texture
Sandpaper
This type of shrimp can “punch” as fast as a .22 caliber bullet
Mantis shrimp
Name 2 "vegetables" that people usually forget or don't realize that they are actually fruits
Tomato and Pumpkin
The name of a person who studies weather and climate science.
Meteorologist
What is the term for a species whose presence or absence significantly affects the structure and health of its entire ecosystem?
Keystone species
True or False, Shark have bones.
False, shark are fish made of cartilaginous tissues. Even though sharks don't have bones, they still can fossilize. As most sharks age, they deposit calcium salts in their skeletal cartilage to strengthen it. The dried jaws of a shark appear and feel heavy and solid; much like bone.