Vocabulary
This is the action of carefully choosing animals or plants based on certain traits to make varieties.
Why are there so many different varieties of dogs?
What is the name for liquid rock?
lava
What is the name of dark colored rocks that come from shield volcanoes?
basalt
Why do people have sometimes have blurry vision and need glasses?
The distance between their lens and retina is either too short/too long.
To produce more offspring of a different kind is called
breed
What is the name for the part of the eye that acts as a lens?
cornea
What is the name of the pattern of volcanoes around the Pacific Ocean?
The Ring of Fire
What is the name of the pale colored rocks that come from cone volcanoes?
felsite
Why can nocturnal animals see better in the dark than humans/animals that are typically awake during the day?
1) They typically have larger pupils and rounder eyes to allow for more light to enter their eyes.
2) There is a reflective part at the back of their eyes that humans do not have.
_______ are characteristics we get from our parents.
Traits
What is the part of the eye at the back, that senses the light and sends a message to the brain
retina
What is the scientific name for a dead volcano?
an extinct volcano
What is it called when a seed falls into a crack and keeps growing and expanding until it breaks the rock?
root wedging
Why do people get red eye in photos if we don't have a colored reflective part at the back of our eyes?
Our pupils sometimes don't have enough time to adjust to the amount of light that will be entering through it; therefore, the red that is reflecting back is actually the blood vessels at the back of our eyes.
A giraffe having a long neck to reach the leaves in tall trees is an example of?
Why does our eyes see things upside down, but it looks right-side up to us?
Our brain corrects it.
What is the name of the shape of an exploding volcano called?
cone
What is it called when water fills in a crack and freezes and expands until it breaks the rocks?
ice wedging
The reducing of rocks or landforms due to wind, water or other natural agents
erosion
Different feather colors of pigeons or the number of scales on a lizard's toe are examples of?
variation
What is the word that comes from the Greek goddess of rainbows?
Iris
What is the name of the shape of a volcano that doesn't explode?
shield
What is the name for things in nature such as tornadoes, wildfires, floods and earthquakes?
natural hazards
How did the land at the Ashfall Fossil Beds in Nebraska change over time? How were people able to discover the fossils there?