Chapter 1
The chemical process by which green plants produce food
What is photosynthesis?
Active at night
What is nocturnal?
What is slate?
Scientist which studies outer space
What is an astronomer?
What are planets?
The part of the plant where the glucose is produced
What are the leaves?
What is the cephalothorax?
A type of cave formed by the dissolving of underground rocks by water
What is a solution cave?
Cluster of about 40 galaxies that includes the Milky Way
What is the Local Group?
A symmetrically shaped oval
What is an ellipse?
A scientist who studies trees
What is a dendrologist?
A group of mollusks in which the food and head are combined into a single headlike structure
What are cephalopods?
What is Moho? (You do NOT get any bonus points for saying Mohorovicic discontinuity, Seth)
"sphere of color", sun's surface
What is the chromosphere?
"Seas" of the moon
What are maria?
Fungi that feed on dead plant material
What are saprophytes?
A lobster with no pincers that defends itself with long, sharp antennae
What is a spiny lobster?
Eruption where fluid lava surges from the vent like water from a fountain
What is Hawaiian eruption?
Constellation that has the stars Castor and Pollux
What is Gemini?
Occurs when the moon passes through the earth's shadow
What is a lunar eclipse?
A deciduous conifer with needles that turn gold before falling off
What is a larch (tamarack)?
A spider that makes a tiny silk net to catch insects
What is an ogre faced spider?
The second most common type of coal
What is sub-bituminous coal?
Also known as a double star, it is two stars that orbit each other
What is a binary star?
A band of cometlike objects located beyond the orbit of Neptune
What is the Kuiper Belt?