Water World
A cloud at ground level
What is fog?
When water (or wind or ice) wears away and changes the surface of the earth
What is erosion?
A flying mammal
What is a bat?
All living and nonliving things in an area that interact with each other
What is an ecosystem?
An animal that eats both plants and other animals
What is an omnivore?
Evaporation, condensation, and precipitation are important parts of this
What is the water cycle?
A mass of ice that moves slowly over land
What is a glacier?
They spread pollen from flower to flower so plants can make fruit and seeds
What is a pollinator?
What is a deciduous forest?
An organism that makes its own food; it does not eat other plants or animals to survive
What is a producer?
Any liquid or solid water that falls to earth as a result of condensation in the atmosphere
What is precipitation?
A period of time when there is very little rain or snow in a particular place
What is a drought?
The use of high-pitched sounds to help an animal hunt or navigate
What is echolocation?
This biome has an extremely cold climate, receives very little precipitation, and has no trees
What is the tundra?
The process by which plants use energy from the sun to make food
What is Photosynthesis?
This process causes water vapor to become liquid
What is condensation?
What is an aquifer?
When an animal sleeps very deeply through the winter
What is hibernation?
Relating to land or earth
What is terrestrial?
The main energy source for life on earth
What is sunlight or the sun?
Evaporation is the process of water turning to vapor from the earth's surface, while this is the process of water vapor being released from plants and soil
What is transpiration?
An example of a landscape in the Midwest created by glacial melt
What are the Great Lakes?
The category of organism that helps break down dead animals and plants
A coastal body of water where fresh water from a river and salt water from the ocean mix
What is an estuary?
When organisms depend on each other for survival, they are described as ____________
What is interdependent?