Unit 1
Question: What is a natural resource?
Answer: Something from nature that people can use.
Question: What is deforestation?
Answer: Destroying forests and cutting down trees.
Question: What is recycle?
Answer: To make old things into new things.
Question: What is precipitation?
Answer: Water that falls from the sky.
Question: What is a drought?
Answer: A long time with little or no rain.
Question: What is wood?
Answer: This natural resource is used to make houses, tables, and paper.
Question: What does trees do to the air?
Answer: Trees help make it clean.
Question: What is reuse?
Answer: To use something more than once.
Question: What is water vapor?
Answer: Water that gets really hot and turns into a gas.
Question: Which vocabulary word means "to stop something from happening"?
Answer: Prevent.
Question: What is soil?
Answer: This natural resource is soft and is used to grow plants and vegetables.
Question: What is a habitat?
Answer: A place where an animal or plant lives.
Question: What is reduce?
Answer: To use or do less of something. Question: What is reduce?
Question: What is condensation?
Answer: Water vapor turns into water during this stage.
Question: During a drought, what can't farmers do to their plants?
Answer: Harvest their plants.
Question: What is coal? (what does it do)
Answer: Burning coal makes COâ‚‚/energy.
Question: What leads to landslides occurring
Answer: Deforestation can lead to this after heavy rain.
Question:
True or False: Reusing things saves resources and energy.
Answer: True
Question: What is evaporation?
Answer: Water changes into gas during this stage.
Question: Oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers are called what?
Answer: Bodies of water.
Question: Name two natural resources that people burn to make energy.
Answer: Coal, oil, or natural gas
Question: name a way to stop deforestation
Answer: plant trees
Question: Name all three actions that help protect the Earth.
Answer: Reduce, reuse, and recycle
Question: Put these stages in the correct order: condensation, evaporation, precipitation
Answer: What is evaporation → condensation → precipitation?
Question: Which vocabulary word means "to say what you think will happen"?
Answer: Predict.