Moon phases
Earth’s axis is tilted at this angle.
What is 23.5 degrees?
This process changes liquid water into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are this type of planet.
What are terrestrial planets?
These blood vessels carry blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
This is the basic unit of life in plants and animals.
What is a cell?
This phase comes right after a New Moon.
What is a Waxing Crescent?
When water soaks into the ground and fills aquifers, it is called this.
What is infiltration?
Pluto is no longer a major planet but is classified as this type instead.
What is a dwarf planet?
The heart has this many chambers.
What is 4?
Plant cells, but not animal cells, have this structure that provides strength and support.
What is a cell wall?
When the Moon looks fully lit from Earth, it’s in this phase.
What is a Full Moon?
his process releases carbon dioxide when organisms break down food for energy.
What is respiration?
One key difference between terrestrial planets and gas/ice giants is this feature.
What is a solid rocky surface vs. no solid surface?
Platelets in the blood are responsible for this important process when you cut yourself.
What is clotting (or coagulation)?
These storage sacs are usually large in plant cells but small in animal cells.
What is the vacuole?
It takes about this many days for the Moon to go through all its phases.
What is 28 days?
When dead plants and animals are buried for millions of years, they can turn into these carbon-rich fuels.
What are fossil fuels?
This is the scientific name of a planet made of gas
What is a jovian planet?
This blood vessel carries oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart.
What is the pulmonary vein?
This stain is commonly used to see animal cheek cells.
What is methylene blue?
Earth’s tilt causes shadows to be shorter in this season and longer in winter.
What is Summer?
This part of the cycle moves water from plants into the air.
What is transpiration?
When the Sun, Earth, and a planet line up with the Moon, it can sometimes create one of these events.
What is an eclipse?
This valve prevents blood from flowing back into the left atrium.
What is the bicuspid valve?
To calculate the total magnification, you multiply the eyepiece lens power by this.
What is the objective lens power?