Our Solar System
The third planet from the sun.
What is Earth?
The current outdoor conditions.
What is Weather?
A mixture of sand, silt, clay, rock, and humus (plant and animal remains).
What is Soil?
A sudden release of energy under Earth’s surface that makes the ground shake or crack.
What is an Earthquake?
Resources that are found in the environment and are not made by humans.
What are Natural Resources?
A natural satellite that orbits a planet; some planets have none, and others have over 60.
What is a Moon?
How hot or cold something is.
To rot and break down the remains of plants and animals into smaller parts.
What is Decompose?
The rapid, downward slide of rocks and mud.
What is a Landslide?
To use less of a resource.
What is Reduce?
A star at the center of the solar system. It provides heat that supports life on Earth.
What is the Sun?
A tool that shows wind direction.
What is a Wind Vane?
A component of soil made by the weathering of rocks into tiny grains; has a rough and gritty texture.
What is Sand?
A mixture of hot rocks, ash, and gas from deep inside Earth that explodes or seeps through a crack in Earth’s surface.
What is a Volcanic Eruption?
To use something more than one time.
The first of the Outer Planets (also known as the Gas Giants).
What is Jupiter?
Each of the four divisions of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter) marked by particular weather patterns and daylight hours, resulting from the earth's changing position with regard to the sun.
What are Seasons?
The slow breakdown of rocks into very small particles by gravity, water, wind, and ice.
What is Weathering?
Change to Earth’s surface that occurs in a short period of time.
What is a Rapid change?
To properly dispose of used resources so they can be reprocessed into new products.
What is Recycle?
The path one object takes as it revolves around another object in space.
What is Orbit?
Rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls from clouds in the sky.
What is Precipitation?
A component of soil made of very tiny grains; sticky and soft when wet but turns hard when dry.
What is Clay?
If an earthquake happens underwater, it can cause a huge wave of water called this.
What is a Tsunami?
A type of resource that won’t run out. They are better for the environment, but are not as reliable as nonrenewable resources. (Examples include wood, wind, and solar energy.)
What are Renewable Resources?