Fresh Water
Fresh water is found in rivers, ponds, and these other bodies of water. Minnesota is known for them.
What are Lakes?
This is the step of the water cycle where liquid water comes down from the sky in the form of rain, sleet, or snow.
What is precipitation?
Arrows mean this in a food chain.
What is "gets eaten by" or some other answer like that?
If an animal has a backbone, it is one of these.
What is a vertebrate?
The Good Friday Earthquake occurred on this day of the week in Alaska, March 27th, 1964.
What is Friday?
Fresh water, usually in a river, is responsible for carrying this mineral to the ocean.
What is salt?
This is the step of the water cycle where evaporated water turns back into liquid form within clouds.
What is condensation?
The lowest level of the food chain is made up of these things that create their own food using photosynthesis or chemosynthesis.
What are producers?
Creatures that give birth to live young and produce milk for them belong to this category of critters. Examples include dolphins and humans.
What are mammals?
This was the first region of the United States that we covered in our Fifty States unit.
What is the Northeast?
Most large deposits of freshwater originate from these large moving deposits of frozen water.
What are glaciers?
This is the step of the water cycle where water seeps into the soil and can deposit itself into the groundwater supply.
What is infiltration?
In a food chain where phytoplankton is eaten by a salmon and the salmon is eaten by a bear, the salmon would be filling this role.
What is a primary consumer?
Creatures that belong to this category are invertebrates with soft bodies and sometimes have a hard calcium shell. Examples include squids and snails.
What are mollusks?
This was the year the first iPhone came out.
What is 2007?
Rivers empty into these environments, home to special critters that tolerate semi-salty (brackish) water.
What are estuaries?
This is the step of the water cycle where plants give off water vapor directly into the atmosphere from their leaves.
What is transpiration?
In a food chain where phytoplankton is eaten by a salmon and the salmon is eaten by a bear, the bear would be filling this role.
What is a secondary consumer?
Creatures belonging to this category of invertebrates are known for their carnivorous diet and stinging cells used to trap prey. Members include jellyfish and sea anemones.
What are cnidarians?
This is the name of the song we played from Spongebob during this unit.
What is Jellyfish Jam?
Animals like dobsonfly or dragonfly larvae are indicators that water is at this level of quality.
What is good quality?
This is what we call water that slides down off the land into large bodies of water like lakes and ponds.
What is runoff?
This is the term used to refer to animals that help break down the remains of dead animals and allow them to be absorbed into the ground.
What are decomposers?
What are arthropods?
Mr. Tuckey had six hashtags listed under the "Hashtag Wall of Questionable Linguistic Fluency" on his board during Trimester One. Name one of these hashtags.
Options are as follows: #Summerbles, #Ri'dere, #Termomter, #Westroom, #PrimaryColorsofPregnant, and #ShowingUpisHalftheBottle