The Water Cycle
What happens during precipitation?
What is water falling from the sky?
What prevents erosion?
What are big rocks and trees?
Why do fish need riparian zones?
They need a stable habitat.
Does water ever stop existing?
No!
Where do producers get their energy?
What is abiotic factors?
What is evaporation?
What causes erosion?
What are water, wind, and chemicals?
Why do deer need riparian zones?
They provide shelter for them so that they can find food and water.
What living things rely on water?
Pretty much all of them!
Where do primary consumers get their energy?
What is from producers?
What is a glacier?
What is a huge frozen land mass?
what animals can help prevent erosion?
What are beavers, otters, and predators who eat herbivores?
What is a riparian zone?
What is the area next to a body of freshwater?
How much of the Earth's water is drinkable for humans?
three percent
Where do mushrooms get their energy, and where does that energy go?
What is from decomposing organic matter, and it goes back into the ground?
Where do most humans get their drinking water?
What is an aquaphor?
In Yellowstone, what happened to the eroding rivers when wolves were reintroduced to the ecosystem?
The rivers flowed faster and the banks were stronger.
Why do migratory birds need riparian zones?
It provides them a safe place to rest and recover on their journeys.
Where is most of the Earth's water?
The ocean
What is by decomposing and/or distributing their spores through the wind?
What does water always find?
What is the lowest possible point?
In Bill Nye's video, how did the coin prevent erosion?
It stopped the water from being able to change the shape of the sandcastle.
It means that they have to travel farther between rests, which can shorter their lifespans.
How do glaciers affect the rest of the planet?
The cool the planet and stabilize the temperature of the oceans.
Where does the energy from living things go when they decompose?
Back into the ground!