Earth and Space
This is the spinning of Earth on its axis, which takes about 24 hours to complete.
What is rotation?
The largest mammal on earth?
What is the blue whale.
The energy an object has because of its motion.
What is kinetic energy?
This instrument measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
The path Earth takes around the sun.
What is an orbit?
This is the movement of Earth around the sun, which takes one year to complete.
What is revolution?
True or false: Birds and insects are the only animals that can fly.
What is false, bats can also fly.
A measure of the amount of matter in an object.
What is mass?
A thermometer measures this.
A: What is temperature?
The force that pulls objects toward Earth.
What is gravity?
This invisible line circles the Earth horizontally at its widest point, dividing it into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the equator?
Cumulus, cirrus, and stratus are three types of what?
What are clouds.
The total length an object travels.
What is distance?
Any type of water falling from clouds is called this.
What is precipitation?
A possible explanation that can be tested in an experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
Known as the "Red Planet," this is the fourth planet from the sun.
What is Mars?
This causes ocean tides?
What is the gravitational pull of the Moon.
Plants use this process to transform light energy into chemical energy.
What is photosynthesis?
A rotating funnel-shaped cloud that touches the ground.
What is a tornado?
Organisms that eat other organisms for energy.
What are consumers?
This planet has a large, spinning atmospheric storm known as the "Great Red Spot".
What is Jupiter?
An animal that eats meat and plants is called this.
What is an omnivore.
The push or pull on an object.
What is force?
The calm center of a hurricane.
What is the eye?
The basic unit of life.
What is a cell?