Plants and Animals
These animals have three body segments and special body parts like antennae and compound eyes. Some even have wings.
What are insects?
This activity is important to do in order for humans to stay healthy and not get sick. We should do it before and after every meal and after every visit to the bathroom.
What is washing hands?
This word describes something shaking very fast. Sometimes the shakes are fast enough to make noise.
What is vibration?
This giant rock in space orbits the Earth and reflects the light from the Sun.
What is the moon?
This is Earth's most important source of heat.
What is the Sun?
This word describes animals that are hunters.
What is a predator?
These organs are responsible for breathing. They fill up with oxygen like balloons.
What are the lungs?
This tool measures temperature.
What is a thermometer?
The first four planets of the solar system are made of this solid material.
What is rock?
These underwater communities are like little neighborhoods, home to many different types of creatures, including turtles, oysters, crabs, sea stars, urchins, and many species of fish.
What are coral reefs?
This part of a plant helps it to absorb sunlight and to "breathe."
What are leaves?
This word describes the pumping of blood through our veins that we can feel in our wrists or necks. It pumps in a steady rhythm.
What is pulse?
This word is used to describe something that turns from a solid into a liquid. It usually happens to objects that get too hot.
What is melt?
This planet is the largest planet.
What is Jupiter?
This layer of the ocean is the closest to the surface and receives the most light. This layer is home to coral reefs.
What is the sunlight layer?
This special ability is how some animals, like bats or dolphins, locate food or friends even when it's hard to see.
What is echolocation?
We inhale oxygen, but exhale this gas as waste.
What is carbon dioxide?
This word is the unit for temperature. When reporting the temperature, we say this word after the number.
What are degrees?
The last four planets of the solar system are made up of this non-solid state of matter.
What is gas?
This layer of the rainforest is the lowest layer and gets the least sunlight. It is home to many insects as well as some of the largest animals of the rainforest.
What is the forest floor?
Some plants and animals are able to absorb liquids through these small holes. They are in plant leaves, sponges, even our face.
What are pores?
This tool is used to listen to the heart and lungs. We see it at the doctor's office.
What is a stethoscope?
This type of energy is used in x-rays. It is also related to heat energy that we feel from the Sun or from fire.
What is radiation?
In 2006, this former planet was deemed too small to be a planet.
What is Pluto?
This word is used to describe the rainforest with the many species of plants and animals that live within it.
What is biodiversity?