Characteristics of our Solar System
What is the most important factor that helps determine Earth's temperature?
What is Earth's proximity to the sun?
There is no air in space. This tool is required for an astronaut to directly communicate with another astronaut in space.
What is a radio?
This is the term for a very small, specialized habitat such as the space under a rock.
What is a microhabitat?
This tool is used in order to identify objects or organisms.
What is a dichotomous key?
A change that makes an organism better fit for survival in its environment.
What is an adaptation?
Earth is currently 150 million km away from the Sun. If Earth was 200 million km away from the Sun, it would no longer support life because -
what is - it would be too cold and water would not be in liquid form.
An astronaut returns from six months on the space station. The astronaut’s muscles are weak, requiring the astronaut to be helped from the spacecraft once back on Earth. This accommodation on the space station would help prevent this problem.
What is exercise equipment?
After an ecosystem has been changed by a fire or some other type of disaster, this process takes place.
What is ecological succession?
The type of characteristics that allow a dichotomous key to find the identity of objects/organisms..
What are physical and behavioral features?
A fish adaptation that allows it to breathe underwater.
What are gills?
This layer of the atmosphere protects us from harmful UV rays.
What is the ozone layer?
Velcro® allows objects to be easily attached and also easily separated. Handles help astronauts move around the space station. This is because of the floating sensation felt by astronauts in space.
What is microgravity?
During ecological succession these types of organisms usually grow back first.
What are weeds and grasses?
Number of decisions at each branch of a dichotomous key.
What are two decisions?
This adaptation allows birds to eat the seeds and other food available in their habitat.
What are beaks?
This is the zone around the sun that allows planets to be warm enough to have liquid water, but cool enough to allow water not to boil.
What is the Goldilocks zone?
Because of this, astronauts need a strong outer layer, similar to a bullet-proof vest, on a spacesuit.
What are objects in space like trash and meteorites?
An ecosystem's ability to endure and remain productive and diverse over time
What is sustainability?
Meaning of dichotomous.
What is divided into two parts?
This adaptation keeps arctic animals from freezing.
What is blubber?
Which characteristic of the planet, Earth, is essential to the survival of every living organism?
What is liquid water?
This type of space station allows humans from all over the world to live there and perform experiments.
What is the International Space Station?
The process by which plants use water and carbon dioxide to create their food, grow, and release excess oxygen into the air.
What is photosynthesis?
These terms mean living and nonliving.
What are biotic and abiotic?
Humans intervene with plants and animals in this process to create the organisms they want the most.
What is selective breeding?