Maps
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Water Cycle
Raptor Anatomy
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This is an illustration of an area like a city, town, or continent that shows main features and/or landmarks.
What is a map?
100
When people were first figuring out how to navigate they used this as a guide for directions and also figuring out what time of day it was..
The sun and stars
100
Precipitation
Water falls down
100
Birds have bones what are super light weight in order to have an easier time of flying. This is because bird bones are..
Hollow
100
Leave no trace includes 7 principles like prepare and plan, stay on trail, and be respectful of wildlife. By following these principles we are doing what?
Following leave no trace helps us to be better stewards of our planet and respect nature. Leaving places the same, or better than we found them.
200
To be a good map you must have.... (name 3)
A title, compass showing cardinal directions, scale, legend (key), latitude/longitude
200
This is one of the navigation tools we have in our tool box. It helps as navigate by using the earth's magnetic field and showing us cardinal directions (N,E,S,W) in relation to where we are.
What is a compass?
200
Water rises from the ground
Evaporation
200
Birds have a bone that's very similar to the elbow in humans. This bone is called....
The humerus bone
200
Name the barn owl that lives at the raptor center
Piper
300
The word "map" came from this latin word which means paper or napkin
mappa
300
North, East, South, and West are known as _______ directions
Cardinal directions
300
Water gathers all around
Accumulation
300
True or false: Birds have lungs similar to humans but different because they also have air sacs.
True!
300
True or false: Tree squirrels hibernate during the winter time.
False
400
This type of map follows a THEME, or in other words it shows a single attribute like soil type or vegetation.
Thematic map
400
This is a scale. Scales on maps help us to...
Scales help us understand and imagine actual distances between place or objects.
400
Water forms into a cloud
Condensation
400
This word sure to fun to say. Collectively known as the bones in the digits, or ends of the leg, wing, and/or arms (toes and fingers)
Phalanges
400
This river flows from Leadville CO headwaters through multiple states and eventually into the Mississippi river. This is the very same river that flows though Pueblo by the Nature Center from Lake Pueblo.
The Arkansas River
500
This is the oldest surviving map of the world....
What is the imago mundi?
500
This is where the original compass was invented in 300 BCE and was first used as a tool for spiritual guidance to figure out where to build things.
China
500
Plants sweat the water out
Transpiration
500
Name this group of feathers
Primary flight feathers
500
The interaction of living and nonliving things in a habitat. This is the way in which all things are connected. There are big ones and small ones. We each have our own, and as a group of people we make one with interactions and relationships.
An ecosystem