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EARTH: Home Sweet Home
Woodword is back on Earth this week, refueling
before heading deeper into our solar system.
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DISTANCE
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STRATOSPHERE
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C or e:
Height of
a satellite
97% of the world’s
w orld’ s water is in the
the
oceans and th
he remaining 3% is fresh
water
% of fresh water divides
water. . That 3%
contained
into 77% cont
tained in icecaps and
glaciers, 22%
% in groundwater aquifers
(the source of f our drinking water).
And this leaves
leav es only 1% which make
up the waters in rivers, lakes
and streams.
TROPOSPHERE
Ear th
Earth
Adjectives
A djec tiv es
Look through
the newspaper
to find five
adjectives that
describe Earth.
Co omplete the grid by using all the letters
Complete
in n the word EARTH in each vertical and
horizontal
ho
orizontal row. Each letter should only
onll y
be e used once in each row. Some spaces
have
ha
ave been filled in for you.
Standards Link:
Language Arts:
Follow simple
written directions.
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Got
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Earth is the only plane
planet t not named after a Roman n or Greek
god or goddess. How did
d it get its name? No one is quite
sure. E
Englis sh/German
German word that simply
simpl ly means
Earth is an English/German
the ground.
What
W
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Earth
r th in other
languages?
math
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th
h t to
o find out!
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8+4
SWAHILI
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FINNISH = 21
1 - 6
SP
P ANISH
A
= 17
7 +3
SPANISH
Standards
Standa
rds Link: Math: Compute sums to 25.
ATMOSPHERE
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LIFE
E V I S S A M L N O
D O C E A N I E E S
E P X L A Q N C W T
R T E Y U H A A E R
This week’
week’s s word:
O S T I G P T F L E
The verb exist means to
be real and to have actual
being. Exist can also
means to be alive.
L I D I S E I R K P
P X A E R L N U A X
X E T A T D U S T E
E R E H P S O M T A
EXIST
Scientists wonder if life
might exist on Mars.
Try
T
ry
r to use the word exist
in a sentence today when
talking with your friends
and family.
family .
P t ti the
Protecting
th E
Earth
th
Look through the newspa
newspaper
aper to find five or
more ways people are wo
orking to protect the
working
planet. Look for things that
th hat save resources,
that save ener
gy and that t can be recycled.
energy
ANSWER: Because pep
pepper
pper water makes them sneeze.
sneeze .
Standards Link: Research: Use the ne
newspaper
ewspaper to locate information.
Pretend you could win a ride
into space on a rocket. Write
a paragraph telling why you
should win that prize.