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February 19, 2006

Wordplay: Nature Mnemonics

Category: Nature Curriculum, Word Play, Writing Exercises, Writing Life – Admin – 5:22 pm

Mnemonics are phrases used to help us remember something important.

Here are a few nature-related mnemonics:

1. OCEAN - Only Cats’ Eyes Are Narrow

2. GEOGRAPHY - George Eastman’s Old Grandmother Rode A Pony Home Yesterday

3. Order of taxonomy in biology:
(Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species)

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4. Order of geological time periods:
(Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene)

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5. The order of planets in average distance from the Sun: (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto)

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