Traits
This is a feature or characteristic of a living thing, like eye color or leaf shape.
What is a trait?
This is what we call the condition of the air outside, including temperature, rain, and wind.
What is the weather?
This is the average weather in a place over a long time.
What is the climate?
This is the process where the sun heats up water and turns it into vapor
What is evaporation?
These are things like: sight, smell, touch, hearing and taste.
What are our senses?
This is how you get traits you get from your parents, like having curly hair or brown eyes.
This fluffy white thing in the sky is made of tiny water droplets.
What is a cloud?
This happens when Earth’s temperature slowly gets warmer.
What is global warming?
This happens when water vapor cools down and turns back into liquid, forming clouds.
What is condensation?
This part of a plant takes in water from the ground.
What is the root?
This kind of trait is not inherited such as riding a bike or speaking a language.
What is a learned behavior?
We use this tool to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
These gases trap heat in Earth’s atmosphere and cause the planet to warm up.
What are greenhouse gasses?
These are the four types of precipitation that can fall from clouds.
What is rain, snow, hail and sleet.
This force keeps all things grounded.
What is gravity?
When a plant or animal changes to survive in its environment.
What is adaption?
This type of weather includes lightning, thunder, and heavy rain.
What is a thunderstorm?
These are things people burn this (like coal, oil, or gas), it adds pollution to the air.
What are fossil fuels?
This is the name of the full journey water takes as it moves through the air, land, and oceans.
What is the water cycle?
This is the largest ocean on Earth.
What is the pacific ocean?
Puppies can look different even if they are from the same litter because of this.
What is variation?
What is precipitation?
Planting these can help reduce climate change because they take in carbon dioxide.
What are trees?
This star gives the energy that powers the water cycle.
What is the sun?
This is what you call a guess you make before doing an experiment.
What is a hypothesis?