Water Cycle Terms
The process where liquid water turns into a gas.
What is evaporation?
How long it takes to orbit the sun
What is 365 days?
Tiny organisms like worms and bacteria that help break down compost
What are decomposers?
What is the sun?
The name for the large bodies of salt water that cover most of Earth's surface.
What are oceans?
The process where water vapor turns into liquid droplets to form clouds.
What is condensation?
The length of a lunar cycle
What is 28 days?
The name for the natural process of breaking down food and plant waste into soil.
What is decomposition?
A force that pulls objects toward each other, like Earth pulling you down.
What is gravity?
The layer of gases that surrounds Earth and helps support life.
What is the atmosphere?
Rain, snow, sleet, or hail falling to Earth from clouds.
What is precipitation?
The reason Earth experiences day and night.
What is Earth's rotation?
A type of material that adds "green" nutrients like nitrogen to compost.
What are food scraps or grass clippings?
A push or pull that can cause an object to start moving, stop, or change direction.
What is a force?
The movement of nutrients and energy between living things and their environment.
What is an ecosystem?
Water that flows across the land into rivers, lakes, and oceans.
What is runoff?
The reason the constellations change with the seasons.
What is Earth's orbit around the sun?
A type of material that adds "brown" ingredients like carbon to compost.
What are dry leaves or cardboard?
The force that acts against gravity to help planes fly.
What is lift?
A change that helps a living thing survive in its environment.
What is an adaptation?
Water soaking into the ground or being taken in by plants.
What is absorption?
How long it will take to be a new moon if we experienced a full moon last night.
What is 14 days?
The main reason composting is helpful for the environment.
What is it reduces waste and makes healthy soil?
The flow of energy through organisms.
What is a food web?
The slow wearing away of Earth's surface by wind, water, or ice.
What is erosion?