Space
What is the third planet from the Sun?
The Earth
What covers 71% of the Earth?
Water
What forms when cold air and hot air mix and start to spin?
A tornado
What kinds of animals have live babies, instead of laying eggs?
Mammals
Name two types of scientists
Environmental, biologist, chemist, physicist, psychologist, astronomer, biochemist, ect
Is the sun a star or a planet?
A star
What is the tallest mountain on Earth?
Mount Everest
What forms when ice crystals stick together in the atmosphere during cold, winter days?
Snow
How many bones do sharks have?
Zero
Who loved math and physics. This person gave us the equation E=mc2
Albert Einstein
What galaxy is Earth in?
The milky way
What thing in our galaxy is why we have high tides and low tides in Earth's oceans?
The moon
What happens when an air channel collapses after a lightning strike. Sometimes its very loud!
This is how many species of animals there are on Earth:
A. 10.3 billion; B. 500; C. 8.7 million; D. 74,956
C. 8.7 million
What percent of the human body is made up of water?
60%
What is the name of the force holding us to the Earth?
Gravity
What do we call the remains of a prehistoric organism preserved in rock?
A fossil
What happens when positively-charged particles and negatively-charged particles come close together inside a cloud? Comes before Thunder!
Lightning
What is the largest organ humans have?
The skin
How many bones are in the human body?
206
What is the hottest planet in our solar system?
Venus
Where is the coldest place on Earth?
Antartica
Stratus, cirrus, cumulus and nimbus are types of what?
Clouds
What ancient animals are actually thought to be more related to birds than to reptiles?
Dinosaurs
Where is our field trip to on Wednesday?
The UW Geology and Physics museums