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Vocab 24 6th grade
Misc words
Question | Answer |
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Animals with a backbone, or notochord | vertebrates |
Animals without a backbone | invertebrates |
Thick, hard, outercovering that protects invertebrate arthropods | exoskeleton |
Warm-blooded; vertebrate animal with a nearly constant internal temperature. | endotherm |
Cold-blooded; animals that do not maintain a constant internal temperature | ectotherm |
Prevailing wind belt in the middle and high latitudes; they blow consistently from West to East | Westerly winds |
Prevailing wind belt, near the poles, where cold wind blows from the Poles toward the West | Polar winds |
Convection regions in Earth's atmosphere, and Earth's spinning, cause winds to blow in constant directions around the Earth | Global winds |
A breeze that comes from the cooler sea to the warmer land. | Sea breeze |
A breeze that comes from the cooler land to the warmer sea. | Land breeze |