Weather
Water
Rocks
Fossils
Habitat / Biomes
100
What is a cloud at ground level?
What is Fog?
100
Rain, drizzle, snow, sleet & hail are all forms of what?
Precipitation
100
What kind of rocks form from lava
Igenous
100
What can fossils tell us?
The way of life and time of the fossil.
100
Name three different Biomes?
Desert, Forrest, Wetland
200
What is the ocean of air that surrounds the earth?
The Atmosphere
200
When water turns into a gas called vapor it is?
Evaporation
200
Metamorphic rocks change with _________ & _________.
What is Heat & Pressure?
200
True or False - Only animals can become fossils.
False
200
Name two types of desert plants.
Palms, Joshua Tree, Cactus, Yucca
300
What reads low before a storm?
A Barometer
300
What is it when water evaporates from plants?
Transpiration
300
What are Conglomerate, Sandstone, Shale, & Limestone?
What is Sedimentary Rock?
300
Where are whole animals found as fossils?
Amber, Tar Pits, Ice
300
Why to cactus not have flat leaves?
So they do not lose their water easily.
400
What are two things that casue our weather?
Temperature & Air Pressure
400
What is it called when water vapor changes to a liquid?
Condensation
400
Weathering & Erosion
What is it called when wind and water break up rock?
400
What kind of rock do you find fossils?
Sedimentary
400
Why would some birds live in wetlands, instead of in forests?
The eat fish.
500
What are three weather instruments found at a weather station?
Rain Gauge, Barometer, Anemometer
500
When water is reused by the earth it is called?
The Water Cycle
500
Where are sedimentary rocks usually found?
Where rivers, oceans, and lakes are or once were.
500
Name three differnent kinds of fossils.
Trace, Mineral Replacement, Imprint, Petrified, Whole
500
What are the five classifications of animals with backbones?
Birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish