Vocab Quiz for Emergency Room #1

Earth's Land

• Land can be smooth, rocky, or flat
• Land can be high or low
• Earth's land has many shapes, called landforms
• Mountains-pointed tops, rocky, steep sides

• Valley-low land between mountains or hills

• Plain-flat and wide land

 

• Hills-like small, round mountains

 

• A globe is like a ball that shows earth's continents (land) and oceans

 

• A map is like a globe but it is flat

 

• On a map and globe, low land is shown with green, high land with brown, and water with blue
• An island is small land with water on all sides
• The earth has three parts, or layers (Crust, Mantle, Core)

 

• Crust-where plants and animals live, thin layer
• Mantle-very hot "middle" layer
• Core-very hot, part solid like rock, part liquid like water

A Harbor Pup Seal Grows Up Quiz #2

Oceans and Ponds Quiz #1

Oceans and Ponds

• ocean is a large body of salt water
• beds of kelp (seaweed) are like forests in the ocean (provide food and shelter for animals)

 

• body shapes of animals help them swim (fins, flippers, tails)
• ocean animals stay safe (sea turtles have shells, some animals have spines)
• whales, sharks and dolphins stay in deep water
• pond- small body of fresh water that does not flow
• fresh water has little or no salt
• frogs, fish, and turtles eat insects that live in ponds
• snakes live in grass near ponds and eat frogs
• pond plants grow up through the water to get sunlight
• some insects breathe through tubes to the water's surface
• salamanders breathe through skin

 

• fish breathe through gills

A Harbor Pup Seal Grows Up Quiz #1

A Harbor Pup Seal Grows Up

• Harbor seal families lie in the warm sun
• Sidney is a seal pup
• her mother is hungry, so she dives in the water to go fishing
• the mother hunts fish for 4 days
• people come to rescue the pup
• Peter is a scientist who cares for rescued seal pups
• the scientists feed milk to the hungry pup
• Sidney is 3 weeks old, she is small for her age
• a child's ply pool becomes the pups new home
• the scientists try for many days to get the pup to eat fish, then she eats it
• when the pup is 5 weeks old, she has a thick layer of fat and is ready to be on her own
• Sidney is returned to her ocean home