Natural Features
A dark underground hollow or opening in the ground that can be home to interesting mineral formations and animals like bats.
What is a cave?
A large celestial body that orbits a star (e.g., the sun).
What is a planet?
A non-renewable energy source, such as coal or oil, formed from ancient organic matter.
What is a fossil fuel?
What is waste/to waste?
The process of collecting discarded materials - like paper, plastic, glass, and metal - and transforming them into something new.
What is recycling?
A large, open, grassy area, often used to grow crops or raise farm animals.
What is a field?
A smaller celestial body that orbits a planet, rather than orbiting directly around a star. Hint: Earth has one, but Jupiter has 95.
What is a moon?
A type of energy from a natural source that isn't depleted when used, like wind or solar power.
Renewable energy
To put a species at risk of extinction, typically through habitat destruction or creating hazardous conditions.
What is to endanger?
To make something smaller, or in this context to lessen the amount of trash that you produce.
What is to reduce?
A deep, narrow valley carved by the flowing of a river over millions of years.
What is a canyon?
A giant ball of plasma that generates heat and light.
What is a star?
The long-term shift in Earth's weather patterns driven by human activities since the industrial revolution.
What is climate change?
Any kind of physical harm that degrades the quality of an object, landscape, or resource - OR the verb by which this harm is carried out
What is damage?
The action of using an object again, instead of throwing it out and buying something new.
What is to reuse?
A biome made up of densely packed trees and characterized by high humidity, lots of rainfall, and rich biodiversity.
What is a rainforest?
The vast expanse above Earth's surface, including the atmosphere and outer space.
What is the sky?
Making a hole in rock or soil to reach underground resources like oil or natural gas.
What is drilling?
To make the air, water, or earth dirty or harmful by adding chemical contaminants.
What is to pollute?
What is to preserve?
An area covered with trees, usually smaller and less dense than a forest.
What are woods?
The moment in Earth's daily rotation when the sun first appears on the Eastern horizon.
What is sunrise?
The long-term increase in Earth's temperatures, caused by the greenhouse effect.
What is global warming?
The release of liquid petroleum into the environment, often occuring in the ocean due to accidents with ships or pipelines.
What is an oil spill?
To reverse the harm caused by human activities, helping a degraded ecosystem recover. Planting trees in a deforested area is one example.
What is to restore?