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What is grasslands?
This biome has a lot of grass.
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What is a tornado?
A spinning funnel of wind that touches the ground.
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What is a flood?
The weather event when an area receives a large amount of water in a short time.
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What is a nebula? (galaxy if stars too)
Clouds of dust and gas found in space.
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What is an astronomer?
A scientist who studies the universe and the objects found in it.
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What is the arctic?
This biome is where narwhals live.
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A long period without rain.
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What is a stratus cloud?
These types clouds are low and flat.
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What is a prominence?
Large eruptions or loops of flaming gas from the Sun's surface.
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What is a cartographer?
A person who makes maps.
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What is deciduous, coniferous, and rainforest?
The three main types of forest.
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What is the climate?
Describes the average weather in an area over time.
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What is a crater?
The hole formed in a planet's surface by the impact of a meteorite.
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What is greenhouse gas?
Any gas that traps heat from the Sun, such as carbon dioxide.
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An astronomer and composer who worked with his sister to observe the planet Uranus for the first time.
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What is fresh water biome?
Grayson could show you around Crater Lake in this biome.
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What is fog?
A cloud that forms near the ground.
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What is the mantle?
The mostly solid part of the Earth that lies between its crust and its core.
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What are gas giants?
The nickname for Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune that are composed mostly of gases, such as hydrogen and helium, with a relatively small rocky core.
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Who is Galileo?
This astronomer, physicist, and engineer discovered four moons of Jupiter with his telescope.
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What is the savanna?
You could spot a warthog, gazelle, hyena, or aardvark in this biome.
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What is water, air, and heat from the sun?
These three factors work together to create weather.
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What is: Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Southern, and Indian?
The five main oceans on Earth.
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What is Uranus?
The presence of methane gas in this planet's atmosphere give the planet its blue-green appearance.
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Who is Ptolemy?
A Greek astronomer, mathematician, geographer, and astrologer that believed the geocentric theory.
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