Tiny particles that cause disease in people, other animals, and plants. For example, in humans they cause common cold, influenza (flu), chicken pox, measles, AIDS, and many other diseases.
Virus
A fixed pattern of stars in the sky.
Constellation
A complex movement of water molecules in the form of liquid water, ice and vapor on earth from one area to another.
Water Cycle
______ explains the movement of Earth's surface and various geological features formed by it
plate tectonics
Types of organism that do not have a well defined nucleus inside their cell.
Bacteria or Archaea (any one answer is fine)
A heavy celestial body typically found at the center of a galaxy.
Black hole
We experience seasons since the Earth is tilted by -- degrees from its axis.
23.5 degrees
Granite rocks in Yosemite National Park are this type of rock.
Igneous rock
A bunch of same types of cell working together to do a specific function.
tissue
The distance light travels in one year. Used as a unit of distance to measure distances in astronomy.
Light year
Puffy white clouds with a flat base formed by rising warm air are known as _____
Cumulous clouds
Italian marble in your kitchen was formed by this activity.
Metamorphosis - marble is formed when sandstone comes under enormous heat and pressure.
A bean shaped organelle that uses glucose and oxygen to release energy that cells use to function
mitochondria
Galaxy that is closest to our own Milky Way galaxy.
Andromeda
A complex movement of water molecules in the form of liquid water, ice and vapor on earth from one area to another.
Water cycle
The type of eclipse formed when earth is between the sun and the moon.
Lunar eclipse
The type of cells that have a well defined nucleus are ___
Eukarya - Eukaryotic cells
The hottest planet in solar system
Venue. Its surface temperature is more than 900 degree celcius.
The type of winds that blow from northeast to southwest direction between the equator and 45 degree north latitude.
trade winds.
Solar eclipse occur during this phase of moon
new moon.