The water cycle
Biology
School
Earth and Moon
Australian Animals
100

This a change from a liquid to a gas

Evaporation

100

Is a spider an invertebrate or a vertebrate

Invertebrate

100

What time does MT break start?

11:00am

100

How do we describe a moon that appears to be getting smaller?

Waning moon

100

I am the largest of the kingfishers

Kookaburra

200

Water that evaporates into the sky is called

water vapor

200

What are organisms that break down dead material called?

Decomposers / Detritovores

200

What is the emblem animal of Thuringowa?

A kangaroo

200

What is the main cause of seasons on Earth?

Earth's tilt on its axis

200

I am a flightless bird, I live in the rainforest in Qld

Cassowary

300

Clouds are formed when water droplets accumulate together. This is called..

condensation

300

What do we call an animal that only eats plants

herbivore

300

Name the 4 school houses

Gollogoly

Riverway

Gouldian
Beck

300

What is the moon phase that appears after the New Moon? 

The waxing crescent moon (on the left)

300

I am now extinct. I was the largest carnivore in Australia.

Tasmanian Tiger

400

When water falls to earth as rain, snow or hail. The name for this is...

precipitation

400

In the chain grass-mouse-snake-eagle what would happen if all the mice died?

Grass would increase, snakes would decrease, eagles would decrease. 

400

What's the difference between the two emergency bell sounds.

Evacuation - slow whooping sound

Lockdown- fast sounding alarm

400

Approximately how big is the moon compared to Earth?

1/3 the size of earth

400

I am a monotreme and I am spikey

Echidna

500

What % of water on Earth is freshwater?

2.5% (mostly glaciers and groundwater)

500

What is a species?

Organism that can breed and reproduce to make fertile offspring. 

500

What is the name of the traditional custodians of the land on which Thuringowa school sits?

Wulgurukaba and Bindal People

500

Approximately how far away from Earth is the Moon?

385 000km

30x Earth's would fit between the Earth and Moon

500

I am known as Australia's "native cat"

Quoll

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