Weather & Climate
Is the long-term patterns of temperature, rainfall, and other weather conditions in a particular area.
What is climate?
The name of the place where an animal or plant lives is
What is habitat?
This part of the plant helps it make food from sunlight
What is a leaf?
Process of turning old materials into new products.
What is recycling?
This is the most important natural resource for plants, animals, and humans to survive.
What is water?
This is the process called when water evaporates from plants into the air
What is transpiration?
This animal is known for hibernating during the winter in caves or dens.
What is a bear?
This process is called so when plants make their own food using sunlight, water, and air.
What is photosynthesis?
Common material that can be recycled and turned into new bottles and containers.
What is plastic?
The energy we get from the Sun is called...
What is solar energy?
It is a natural event that occurs when a large amount of warm air rises quickly and forms a rotating column of air
What is a tornado?
The insect that migrates thousands of miles each year from North America to Central and South America.
What is the Monarch Butterfly?
This big tree produces acorns, which animals like squirrels collect.
What is an oak tree?
Color of the bin where you usually put cans and bottles in for recycling
What is a blue bin?
This is the term for the process of using natural resources like coal, oil, and natural gas to make energy.
What is fossil fuel?
We call the boundary between two air masses of different temperatures that can create storms to ...
What is a front?
This animal is known for its ability to live both on land and in water, like frogs and salamanders.
What is an amphibian?
The kind of tree that has long, needle-like leaves and produces cones instead of flowers is called
What is a conifer?
This is the term for using less of something so that it does not run out or harm the environment.
What is conservation?
The rock found in the Earth that can be used to produce metal such as aluminum is ...
What is bauxite?
This is the term for the process where the Earth’s average temperature increases due to excess greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
What is global warming?
What type of animal is a koala, which is only found in Australia and lives in eucalyptus trees.
What is a marsupial?
Name of the largest living tree species in the world, often found in California.
What is a redwood?
It is a harmful gas that is released when burning plastic, which is why we should recycle plastic instead of burning it.
What is carbon monoxide?
A term for an energy source that cannot be replaced once it is used up
What is a non-renewable resource?