Across the Universe
Occurring about 14 billion years ago, it's the explosion that is credited with creating the universe.
What is the Big Bang?
Spanning 165,250,000 sq. kilometers, it's the largest ocean on earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
What are emissions?
According to our text, there are less than 3000 of them left in the wild.
What are tigers?
He predicted that humanity only has 100 years left to live on the earth.
Who is Steven Hawking?
300,000 kms/second
What is the speed of light?
Quickly disappearing, it's our main source of oxygen on the earth, along with the plankton in the oceans.
What is the rainforest?
Vocabulary: to cause widespread damage (synonym)
What is to wreak havoc?
The 3 mega species the World Wildlife Fund is working to conserve.
What are the tiger, the elephant, and the rhino.
It's when there are none of a specific species left alive.
What is extinct?
It's about 9641 billion kilometers in distance.
What is a light year?
A thick layer of fat on their bodies and huddling close together help these Antarctic natives to brave the coldest of temperatures.
What are penguins?
They're known as the 3R's.
What are Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle?
the illegal hunting or capturing of wild animals
What is poaching?
The name of the reporter who did his best to rescue Ascuzena from the mire.
Who is Rolf Carlé?
It's the next closest star to earth (after the sun) located about 4.2 light years away.
What is Proxima Centauri?
Range with over 100 peaks over 7,200 meters.
What are the Himalayan Mountains?
It's what ensures a habitable environment on earth.
What is the greenhouse effect?
It's actually just the largest dolphin.
What is a killer whale?
The name of the North American butterfly whose numbers have been radically reduced over the past few years because of climate change.
What is the monarch?
He's the Polish astronomer who first suggested that the planets in our solar system orbit the sun.
Who is Nicholas Copernicus?
The lion, leopard, elephant, rhino, and buffalo.
What are the Big Five?
A synonym for "to flood".
What is "inundate".
Worshipping this animal, which appears to have a head at both ends, is said to multiply wealth.
What is the Sand Boa?
a fact or situation that is observed to exist or happen, especially one whose cause or explanation is in question. (plural form)
What is a phenomenon/phenomena?