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Features of the Earth Flashcards

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Planet Earth:
What is the Sun made of?

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The Sun is made of very hot games.

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What does the Sun give off

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The Sun gives off light and heat energy.

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What is the Moon made of?

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The Moon is made of rock.

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What is the definition of seas?

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Small saltwater surfaces

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What does the atmosphere help ?

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It helps to keep Earth warm and helps protect it from dangerous rays of the Sun

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What is feature

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An interesting or noticeable part of something

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What is the sphere

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A round shape like a ball

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What is soil

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Sand that is mixed with dead plants or rotting materials

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What is Earth’s water surfaces

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Large areas of water that cover the Earth’s rocky surface

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What is oceans

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The largest of Earth’s saltwater surfaces

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What are seas

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Smaller saltwater surfaces

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What are continents

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One of seven large pieces of Earth’s land surface

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What is isands

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A piece of land that is smaller than a continent and surrounded by sea

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What is the atmosphere

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The layer of air that surrounds Earth

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Why do rocks melt?

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Because at the center of the Earth is hot so it melts.

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What is Earth mostly covered by

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Water

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What do we call this water?

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Earth’s water surfaces.

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How much percent of land?

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29%

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How much percent of water?

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71%

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What is Earth called?

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“The blue planet”

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How many continents are there?

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Seven

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What is the special layer of air that is covered around the Earth?

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The atmosphere

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What does the atmosphere contain?

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It contains the games that living things need to breathe.

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What does this layer of air act like?

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It acts like a blanket that helps to keep the Earth warm enough for living things to survive.

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What do we call a place where something lives?

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A habitat.

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What is the first habitat

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Habitat of a termite

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What is the second habitat

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Habitat of a fish

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What is the third habitat

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Habitat of a leopard

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What is a planet

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A large object that moves around a star

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What are stars

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Objects in space that give off their own light

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What is the sun

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A very bright star that gives light and warmth to planet Earth

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What is space

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An unending Darkness beyond Earth’s atmosphere.

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What is the moon

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A cold
, round object that always moves around her

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What is space?

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An unending darkness beyond Earth’s atmosphere.

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What is Earth?

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Earth is a planet

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Where does Earth always move around?

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Earth always moves around the Sun.

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What type of objects are jn space?

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Gas,dust but no rain.

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What are astronauts?

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People who travel to space in space shuttles.

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What is the Sun ?

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A bright star that is near to Earth for us to see it.

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Why do we see the Moon?

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Because it is the newest object to Earth in space.

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The moon is…….

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Cold and dark.

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Where does the moon get its light from?

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The moon gets its light from the Sun.

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Why can’t we see the starts during the day?

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Because the Sun is too bright.

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The Sun is a……

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Bright star

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The Earth is a …….

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Planet

46
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The Moon moves….

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Around the Sun

47
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A planet is…

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A large object that moves around a star.

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Both the Earth and …

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The Moon moves around the star.

49
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All stars are huge balls of..

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Very hot gas.

50
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What is the Sun much, much bigger than?

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The Earth.

51
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The Suns diameter is how many times bigger than the Earth?

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110 times bigger.

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How far away Is the Sun from Earth ?

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150 million kilometers away.

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Why do they say the Sun is our closest star but it is also far away!

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Because although the Sun is far from Earth, other stars are even further away.

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What if no heat and light energy came to Earth?

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It would be very cold and dark on Earth . Plants and animals won’t survive.

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Why do we say these is a star ?

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Because it produces energy by the fusion reaction of Helium turned into Hydrogen.

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Features of the Earth:
What is a crater

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A round hole on a surface made by something that has fallen on it.

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The Moon is round like a ….

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Ball

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What is the surface of the Moon covered in?

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Dust and pieces of broken rock, but there is no proper soil on the Moon.

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Wht are the rocks on the Moon in space similar to?

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The rocks on Earth.

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The moon doesn’t have air and …

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Water.

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Which means?…

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That living things cannot survive there on the Moon.

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There is no liquid water on the Moon this means that there are no ..

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No rivers, no oceans and no rain ever falls.

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There is no liquid water on the Moon so that means that no plants or….

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Animals from Earth can live there.

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What shape is the Moon?

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A sphere, ball shape.

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Give three reasons why living things cannot live on the Moon.

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Because there is no liquid water, no air and there is no plants for animals to eat.

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What do astronauts have to do to survive on the Moon?

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They will need liquid water, food and oxygen in their shuttles.

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The Moon is much ….

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Smaller than the Earth.

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The Moon is much closer to the Earth than the ..

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Sun.

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Moon stories:
Which group of people believed that as punishment each time the Moon would appear in a crescent shape and then they need to beg for mercy . Then when the Moon returned to its full size again the Sun’s rays would slice off the Moon again?

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The San people.

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Which group of people believed that the open stored many new Moons in a huge crater or in a hole under the ocean . As one Moon drops and disappears so a new Moon rises slowly into the sky?

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The Early Xhosas.

71
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Which group of people believed that the crescent Moon shape was a bowl filled with illnesses. When the pointy ends of the Moon faced down the illnesses would fall out/down and everyone would get ill. On these nights everyone wouldn’t go out. When the pointy ends of the Moon faced up the illnesses would stay in the bowl and everyone would be safe and not ill. On these night people would go out without fear?

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The Sotho, Vendacand Tswanap people.

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Which group of people believed that the surface of the Moon would form shapes. Some people saw a person with wood strapped to their back. Others saw a mother with her child tied to her back?

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The Tswana people.

73
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How many bone are there in the human body?

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206 bones

74
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Who was the famous physicist who first found out about gravity?

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Sir Isaac Newton.

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