Places in the World
Natural Resources
On the Seashore
Forces and Sounds
Energy
100
In these places, the air is cool most of the year. The temperature can be very cold up high. Some high places have ice or snow all year. It is too cold for plants and trees to grow there. It's not as cold at the bottom, plants and trees grow there. Goats live on these places. People like to ski here.
What are Mountain Places?
100
Useful things that come from nature are called this.
What are natural resources?
100
This is a habitat. The water is sometimes deep and sometimes shallow. It changes when the tide brings water in and out. Many plants and animals make their homes here.
What is the seashore?
100
This is a push or a pull that can make something happen or move.
What is Force?
100
This moves from warm places to cold places. It moves from warm things to cold things. It can come from different things. It can come from the light of the sun.
What is Heat?
200
You will not get wet here. These places are very dry. They do not get much rain and the sun shines on most days. The temperature can be hot or cold. There are not many clouds. Scorpians live here. The plants here do not need much water.
What is a Desert?
200
This is land with water all around it.
What is an island?
200
This is a seashore animal with a soft body and a hard shell. The shell can be many colors. It eats animals such as barnacles, limpets and mussels. It's hard shell keeps it safe, but other aniamls such as crabs or birds can eat it.
What is a Dog Whelk?
200
This is a force that pulls things down toward the ground.
What is Gravity?
200
This can change things. It can come from light and do this to temperature. It can make things warmer.
What is Energy?
300
These places are near the equator and are called the Tropics. They are the warmest places in the world. The air stays warm all year. Soem rain forests are in these places. Many plants grow well where it is warm and wet.
What are Tropical Places?
300
This water covers a lot of the Earth.
What is the Ocean?
300
This animal looks like a plant. They live on rock or coral. It uses it's tentacles to catch and eat small fish or shrimp. Sea stars, snails or fish might eat these.
What is a Sea Anemone?
300
This is how fast or slowly something moves. Use more force, things move fast. Use less force, things more more slowly.
What is Speed?
300
This is made when light is blocked.
What is a shadow?
400
These places are the coldests places on Earth. Snow and ice cover the ground. Huge blocks of ice float in the water. Very little sun shines in the winter. It is hard for living things to be where it is so cold. Penquins live in a place like this.
What are Polar Places?
400
These non living things come from the Earth. They are natural resources and can come in different shapes and sizes. Big ones are called boulders and small ones are called pebbles. Sand is tiny peices of this broken up.
What are rocks?
400
This animal has a shell that is in two parts. It lives with other animals that are the same. They live on the sand under the water and eat algae. Sea birds and sea stars eat these.
What is a Queen Scallop.
400
When a sound is made, something does this. This means to move back and forth very fast.
What is Vibrate.
400
Shadows are this if the light is far away.
What is small?
500
This type of land can be found next to water. (You would play here, build a sand castle here and maybe go here on vacation during the summer...)
What is a beach?
500
This is part of Earth's land. It is a natural resource. Sand and clay can be in this.
What is soil?
500
This is a small, slow animal. They can move in any direction and do not have to turn to move. They eat worms, mussels and creatures with shells. Some can push their stomachs out of their mouths. Some fish and crustaceans eat these.
What are Sea Stars?
500
This attracts some types of metal. Attract means to pull toward. Sometimes they also repel, which means to push away. These have two ends, called poles. Opposite poles attract, the same poles repel.
What is a magnet?
500
This is burned to make heat or power. Gasoline is this for the bus. It burns so the bus can move.
What is fuel?