Life Cycles
I can be fungi, earthworms, and flies, and I break down dead material like leaves that fall to the ground in the fall.
Decomposers
The four seasons are:
Fall/Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer
When water falls from the sky, this is called:
PRECIPITATION
All places on Earth have four seasons each year.
FALSE
A CYCLE is when something happens over and over in a specific order. A LIFE CYCLE is the growth an organism goes through from birth to death.
CORRECT
I start as an egg with albumen and a yolk, then I hatch as a small fluffy animal.
Chicken Life Cycle
The invisible lines that goes around the middle of the Earth.
The EQUATOR
When water heats up and becomes water vapor, it floats up into the sky in a process called:
EVAPORATION
Hibernation is when animals burrow, or dig, a home to sleep in for the winter months, then come out when it is springtime.
TRUE
When you can see through something it is TRANSPARENT.
Correct - it means clear or see-through.
I start life as a small egg in the water, then I am born in the water with gills, and end life with lungs and legs.
Frog Life Cycle
The word for each half of the Earth above and below the invisible line that divides the Earth in two.
HEMISPHERE
When water vapor in the sky cools down, it forms clouds in a process called:
CONDENSATION
Animals migrate in the summer, then go back home in the cold winter months.
FALSE
REPLENISHED means to empty something or not refill it.
Incorrect - it means to restore or refill something.
I am a pollinator that goes from being a larvae to a chrysalis, then I emerge from my chrysalis as my final form.
Butterfly Life Cycle
This word means to travel around something else in a circle; the Earth does this around the Sun.
REVOLVE
The 3 main types of precipitation are:
Rain, hail, snow
There is an unlimited water supply on Earth, so it doesn't matter how much we use each day.
FALSE - we only have a limited amount of fresh drinking water on Earth, so we need to be careful with how we use it. Human are using too much water right now, so we will use it all up in the next 20 years if we are not careful.
Plants THRIVE when they do not get sunlight and die.
Incorrect - thrive means to grow and prosper.
I use photosynthesis to turn light and water into energy and oxygen.
Plant Life Cycle
This word means to spin on an AXIS. The Earth does one full one of these every day, which gives us day and night.
ROTATE / ROTATION
The word HUMIDITY refers to the amount of _________ _________ in the air. During the summer there is more, and in the winter there is less.
WATER VAPOR
The part of the world near the equator receives the most direct sunlight, which makes those places some of the hottest on Earth.
TRUE - These areas are called the TROPICAL ZONES.
Butterflies go through a METAMORPHOSIS when they go from larva, to caterpillar, to butterfly.
Correct