Web of Life I
What is a predator?
All living things need the ______________ in order to survive. It is the basis of life in on Earth.
What is the sun?
What were actually the "Wandering Stars," as seen by people from hundreds of years ago?
What are planets?
True or False: You can see the same constellations in the night sky every month of the year.
*Constellation- group of stars that we connect to make an image in the sky.
What is false.
Constellations change with the seasons, as the Earth orbits the Sun. *There are only a few stars that do not change, such as the North Star.
What is evaporation?
What is prey?
A _______________ needs other living things to survive. They cannot make their own food.
What is a consumer?
This is the thing that all planets have, that cause us to not float away into the atomsphere. It keeps us grounded to earth.
What is gravity?
An imaginary line that goes through the North Pole and South Pole of the Earth. The Earth "spins," on this.
What is an axis?
The phase of the water cycle where water droplets stick together in the sky, forming clouds.
This can also occur on the outside of a cold glass on a hot day, or during a hot shower.
What is condensation?
The links that connect living things based off of what they eat and what eats them is called a __________. An example would be :
Hawk --> Fish ---> Worm
What is a food chain?
What is a decomposer?
The more massive, or large the planet is, the ____________ gravity it has.
Think about what we discussed. Would you be able to jump higher on a planet larger than earth or be more grounded?
What is more?
The amount of time it takes for earth to spin once on its axis.
What is 24 hours?
During this phase of the water cycle, the clouds get too heavy and water falls from the sky in the form of rain, sleet, or snow.
What is precipitation?
A living thing that makes it's own food is called a ________________. An example would be a plant.
What is a producer?
Anything that takes up space is called ______________. Can be in the form of a solid, liquid, or gas.
What is matter?
List the planets in order of proximity to the sun.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
As we know, the Earth rotates around the sun. This is the amount of time it takes for the Earth to travel once around the sun.
What is 365 days, or 1 year?
During this phase of the water cycle, water gathers together, and is stored in bodies, such as puddles, lakes, ponds, oceans, etc, until it begins the evaporation process again.
What is accumulation?
Many different food chains all interconnected in one place is called a ______________.
What is a food web?
__________ is the thing that breaks down dead organic material during decomposition.
What is fungi?
As we know, not all planets are habitable, or suitable for life. What two things did we say must be just right for planets to support living things?
What is proximity, or closeness to the sun, and temperature.
What is the monthly calendar?
The "month," was originally pronounced "moonth," because it is based on the phases of the moon, which take about 30 days to complete a cycle!
This is the percentage of the world's water that is SALT water.