Starry Night
A group of planets and/or objects in space that revolve around a star.
What is a solar system?
The 3 main parts of the brain.
What are the cerebrum, cerebellum, and brain stem?
The study of Earth's structure, material, and history.
What is geology?
A type of deep sleep some animals go into during the winter to conserve energy.
What is hibernation?
When animals blend into their environment so they cannot be seen, either to hide from predators or prey.
What is camouflage?
A star is a luminous ball of gas, held together by its own gravity.
What is a star?
(Bonus points if you can remember which gases)
The biggest part of the brain that helps you think and keep memories.
What is the cerebrum?
What are pieces of land that connect together and form Earth's outer shell?
Tectonic plates
Animals' ______, ______, and ______ slow down, and their ______lowers.
What are breathing, heart rate, metabolism, and body temperature during hibernation?
When animals pretend to be something else to either protect themselves from predators or to trick prey.
What is mimicry?
The colours of stars from coolest to hottest.
What are red, orange, yellow, white, and blue stars?
The part of your brain that helps your muscles work together to move, balance, and coordinate.
What is the cerebellum?
True or False: Tectonic plates are always moving.
True
When animals travel a long distance at a specific time, to a specific place, and usually with the changing seasons.
What is migration?
When an animal's colour and pattern helps it blend into its surroundings.
What is concealing colouration?
______and______ are what a star's temperature depends on.
What are size and colour?
Connects brain to spinal cord, and controls involuntary muscles needed for staying alive.
What is the brain stem?
What are land forms and natural disasters?
Reasons for migration could include __________, __________, and _____________.
What are finding a more suitable habitat for the season, having offspring, and looking for places with more food.
When an animal's colour and pattern helps it disguise its own shape against the background.
What is disruptive colouration?
The 1 star and 8 planets of our solar system in order.
What are the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto?
A thick band of nerve fibres that connects the two parts of the brain.
What is the corpus callosum?
The hypothesis/theory that the Earth's continents have moved over geologic time.
(Bonus points if you can name the supercontinent earth used to be)
What is continental drift?
3 examples of hibernating animals, and 3 examples of migrating animals.
Answers will vary
The meaning of "form fits function". (Give 2 examples too!)
Answers will vary.