The Water Cycle
This part of the water cycle turns water into vapor.
What is evaporation?
These organisms make their own food using sunlight.
What are producers?
This layer of Earth is where we live.
What is the crust?
This kind of energy causes movement.
What is mechanical energy?
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
Water droplets cool and form clouds in this step.
What is condensation?
This type of animal eats only plants.
What is an herbivore?
A tool used to measure rainfall.
What is a rain gauge?
A force that slows objects down when they rub together.
What is friction?
Ice melting is an example of this kind of change.
What is a physical change?
Rain, snow, sleet, or hail are examples of this process.
What is precipitation?
These break down dead organisms and return nutrients to the soil.
What are decomposers?
This causes day and night on Earth.
What is Earth's rotation?
A magnet will attract this kind of material.
What is iron or a magnetic metal?
A mixture of iron filings and sand can be separated using this tool.
What is a magnet?
This star provides energy for the water cycle.
What is the Sun?
The direction energy flows in a food chain.
What is from producer to consumer to decomposer?
Puffy white clouds that signal fair weather.
What are cumulus clouds?
A material that does NOT let electricity or heat pass through.
What is an insulator?
Water freezes at this temperature in Celsius.
What is 0°C?
This is how water moves through soil and rocks into bodies of water.
What is infiltration?
If a top predator is removed, this happens to the ecosystem balance.
What is it becomes unbalanced or disrupted?
A fast, sudden change in the land caused by shifting plates.
What is an earthquake?
Energy that travels in waves and allows us to see.
What is light energy?
Rust forming on a nail is an example of this kind of change.
What is a chemical change?