Water Cycle
Terrariums
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
The process in which water turns into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
100
There was only a small amount of this placed inside, but we did not have to replenish it.
What is water?
100
This is the amount of moisture that is in the air.
What is humidity?
100
We completed the _________________ experiment in class, using two containers. One was a low, flat container. The other was a tall, narrow container. It showed us that the SAME amount of water can evaporate from DIFFERENT containers at a different rate, based on surface area.
What is the Evaporation Experiment?
200
The process by which water vapor turns into liquid water. This is responsible for clouds forming.
What is condensation?
200
The water from the cap disappeared. ______ is the cause of this.
What is evaporation?
200
This state of matter does not have a definite shape, mass, or volume. Atoms are freely moving and they fill their container.
What is a gas?
200
The reason for building the ____________ was to demonstrate how the water cycle works. We used bottles, gravel, soil, seeds, and only one cap of water. Our seeds grew into plants because the water evaporated, condensed, and then dripped down the sides into the soil. The seeds received the water, and grew into plants.
What is a terrarium?
300
Water released from clouds to form rain, sleet, hail, or snow.
What is precipitation?
300
Water droplets formed on the inside of the bottle.
What is condensation?
300
This state of matter has no definite shape, so it takes the shape of its container. It has a definite mass and volume. It moves freely.
What is a liquid?
300
These two factors cause water to evaporate. Think of our Evaporation Experiment.
What are surface area AND heat?
400
When water gathers in puddles, lakes, rivers, streams, or oceans.
What is accumulation?
400
What plants did we plant in our terrariums?
What is corn, green beans, pinto beans, and grass seed?
400
This word is used to describe the water that goes to rivers, streams, lakes, and oceans after precipitation.
What is run-off?
400
A lack of rain. Since water is essential for us to drink, cook, and grow crops or plants, these conditions can have a negative effect on humans, plants, and animals.
What is a drought?
500
When moisture is carried through plants, changes to water vapor, and is released through plant leaves. Also known as evaporation of water from plant leaves.
What is transpiration?
500
The terrarium demonstrated the ____________________.
What is the water cycle?
500
This process describes a liquid changing to a solid.
What is freezing?
500
The atoms in this state of matter are tightly packed. It has a definite shape, mass, and volume. The atoms move together, and not freely. It does not take the shape of its container.
What are the properties of a solid?
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