CATEGORY 1: Earth Changes
These events shape the land on Earth.
Answer: What are earthquakes, volcanoes, erosion, and weathering?
This is the short-term condition of the atmosphere.
What is weather?
These come from the sun, not the Moon itself.
What is the Moon’s light?
These are the basic building blocks of all living things.
What are cells?
These organisms make their own food.
What are producers?
The process of rocks breaking into smaller pieces.
Answer: What is weathering?
This is the usual pattern of weather over many years.
What is climate?
The Moon’s phases follow this cycle: New, Crescent, Quarter, Gibbous, and...
What is Full?
This is a series of changes in an animal or plant's life.
What is a life cycle?
These eat other organisms.
What are consumers?
The movement of rocks and sediment by water, wind, or ice.
The movement of rocks and sediment by water, wind, or ice.
The difference between weather and climate.
What is weather is short-term; climate is long-term?
This is the order of the planets from the Sun.
This is the order of the planets from the Sun.
The process a butterfly or frog goes through.
What is metamorphosis?
These break down dead plants and animals.
What are decomposers?
The movement of these causes earthquakes and volcanoes.
What are tectonic plates?
An example of climate vs. weather.
What is Seattle has a rainy climate, but today might be sunny?
Earth spins once every 24 hours.
What is rotation?
These traits are passed from parents to offspring.
What are inherited traits?
A simple example of a food chain.
What is Sun → Grass → Rabbit → Hawk → Decomposer?
Mountains, valleys, canyons, and deltas are examples of these.
What are landforms?
Shadows are longest at these times of day.
What are morning and evening?
The difference between Earth's rotation and revolution.
What is rotation causes day/night, revolution causes a year?
These behaviors are learned after birth.
What are learned behaviors?
All living and nonliving things in a habitat.
What is an ecosystem?