Continents
This continent is where you live.
North America
This is the coldest continent.
Antarctica
mass extinction
Scientists believed what crashed into Earth causing massive volcanic eruptions all around the world.
asteroid
The first step of the scientific method where you use your five senses.
observation
This continent is south of North America.
South America
This continent is north of Africa and east of Asia.
Europe
This is a bowl-shaped hole in the ground made by something crashing into it.
crater
This is the extinction that killed the dinosaurs.
This is the second step of the scientific method where you start to think and ponder based on your observations.
question
This continent is south of the continent of Europe.
Africa
This island country is off the southwest coast of Africa.
Madagascar
This is a massive ocean wave caused by an earthquake or volcanic eruption.
This particular extinction was the biggest mass extinction and it happened over 252 million years ago and 9 out of 10 species went extinct.
The Great Dying or the Permian Extinction
This is the third step of the scientific method and it is an educated guess.
hypothesis
This continent is to the west of Europe.
Asia
This is the supercontinent that scientists believed existed millions of years ago.
Pangea
This is something that is about to happen.
impending
This caused the Permian Extinction or The Great Dying
massive volcanic eruptions
This is the fourth step of the scientific method when you set up an experiment to prove if you are right or wrong.
Test the hypothesis
This continent is an island continent.
Australia
Ancient rock cliffs and evidence of volcanic activity was found in the rocks of this Asian country.
Siberia
This is a living plant, animal, or single-celled life form.
organism
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This is the final step of the scientific method where you analyze the data and information obtained from the experiment.
Drawing Conclusions