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Types of
Science
The Earth and Sun
The Game of Survival
Groups in the Environment
Sea Creatures
100
This is the study of all the materials that make up Earth and the processes that act on them.
What is geology?
100
It takes 365 days for the Earth to complete this path of orbit around the sun.
What is a revolution?
100
This type of animal catches other animals and eats them.
What is a predator?
100
This is a large area with a common climate. It also describes a set of non-living factors that allow certain living things to survive there.
What is a biome?
100
This sea creature gets its name from its number of legs. It changes color to warn predators that it's packing poison, or makes a quick getaway in a cloud of ink.
What is an octopus?
200
This is the study of the universe and the Earth's place within it.
What is astronomy?
200
The spinning motion that the Earth makes is called this.
What is rotation?
200
Animals that are eaten by other animals are called this.
What are prey?
200
Organisms that share the same traits all belong to the same category of this.
What is a species?
200
Beware! This big sea creature is a killing machine. It has several rows of replaceable teeth and can smell blood from miles away.
What is a shark?
300
This branch of Earth science is concerned with weather conditions and weather forecasting.
What is meteorology?
300
This occurs when the sun is directly above the equator and is equally distant from both the northern and the southern hemispheres.
What is an equinox?
300
A type of interaction that benefits all of the organisms involved is called this.
What is cooperation?
300
This is the name given to a group of organisms with shared traits that live in a particular area.
What is a population?
300
This sea creature with a hard outer shell will often have a small treasure hidden inside.
What is an oyster?
400
This is the study of ocean currents, sea creatures, and undersea Earth movements.
What is oceanography?
400
This occurs when the sun is farthest from either the northern or the southern hemisphere.
What is a solstice?
400
The fight for resources that occurs among organisms is called this.
What is competition?
400
All of the populations in an area make up one of these.
What is a community?
400
This chubby creature can be found in Antarctica, also called the South Pole. It barks like a dog, has whiskers like a cat, and like a dolphin it uses flippers to swim (but dolphins don't flop around on land!) It has four letters in its name.
What is a seal?
500
This is the science or art of making maps.
What is cartography?
500
These dark spots on the sun are cooler areas that flow along the sun's surface.
What are sunspots?
500
Animals that eat the remains of other dead animals are called this.
What are scavengers?
500
The living space of a species is called this.
What is a habitat?
500
This massive mammal is the largest of all sea creatures. In fact, it's the largest of all mammals!
What is a whale?