Earth & Weather
The instrument used to measure air temperature.
Thermometer
The term for any animal that eats exclusively plants and vegetation.
Herbivore
The exact number of legs found on all adult insects.
6
The largest planet in our solar system, famous for being a gas giant with dozens of moons.
Jupiter
Plants take in sunlight and this specific gas breathed out by humans to create their food.
Carbon Dioxide
The scientific term for any form of water falling from the sky, such as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
Precipitation
The largest bird in the world, which cannot fly but can run up to 45 miles per hour.
Ostrich
Insects lack internal bones; instead, their body is protected by this hard outer shell.
Exoskeleton
The massive gravitational force of the Sun keeps all planets moving in this type of path around it.
Orbit
The sweet, sugary fluid produced by flowering plants that bees collect to make honey.
Nectar
The state in the US nicknamed "Lightning Alley" because it experiences more lightning strikes per year than any other.
Florida
The state of deep winter sleep that some animals enter to conserve energy when food is scarce.
Hibernation
The process where an insect sheds its tight outer exoskeleton so its body can grow larger.
Molting
Any man-made machine placed into orbit around the Earth to transmit weather data, internet, or GPS signals.
Satellite
The protein found in wheat flour that gives bread dough its stretchy, chewy structure.
Gluten
Seasonal winds in South and Southeast Asia that bring months of heavy rain and flooding.
Monsoon
Mammals like kangaroos, koalas, and wombats that carry their developing young in a pouch.
Marsupials
Ants communicate with each other using these invisible chemical signals left on trails.
Pheromones
Stars burn at different temperatures; this color indicates a star is burning at the absolute highest temperature.
The process of heating liquids like milk to a specific temperature to kill harmful bacteria before packaging.
Pasteurization
The logarithmic scale used by scientists to measure the magnitude and strength of earthquakes
Richter Scale
Flamingos are born gray; they turn pink over time because of compounds found in this primary food source.
Shrimp or Algae
This aquatic bug uses a bubble of air trapped under its wings like a scuba tank to breathe while hunting underwater.
Diving Beetle
A giant interstellar cloud of dust and gas in space where new stars begin to form.
Nebula
The chemical agent added to cake batter that reacts with acids to produce carbon dioxide gas and make the cake rise.
Baking Soda - 500 Points
Sodium Bicarbonate - 1000 Points