The Water Cycle
This process changes liquid water into water vapor.
What is evaporation
The percentage of Earth’s water stored in the oceans
What is about 90%?
This process involves plants releasing water vapor into the air.
What is transpiration
A large region with similar climate, plants, and animals.
What is a biome
The main source of energy for all ecosystems.
What is the Sun
This process occurs when water vapor cools and forms clouds
What is condensation?
The largest storage of freshwater on Earth.
What are ice sheets and glaciers
This term describes water moving through plant roots, stems, and leaves.
What is transpiration
This biome has the greatest biodiversity on Earth.
What is the tropical rainforest
Organisms that make their own food
What are producers
This process occurs when water soaks into the soil
What is infiltration
This type of ecosystem contains saltwater
What is the ocean
Why transpiration is important to plants
What is it helps move water and nutrients and cools the plant
This is NOT considered a biome: desert, rainforest, ocean, or mountain.
What is mountain
Organisms that break down dead plants and animals.
What are decomposers
This is water flowing across land because the soil is saturated.
What is runoff
This store of water is found underground
What are aquifers
The process that moves water deeper into soil after infiltration.
What is percolation
An ecosystem found on land
What is a terrestrial ecosystem
The correct order of energy flow in an ecosystem.
What is Producer → Consumer → Decomposer
The main energy source that drives the entire water cycle.
What is the Sun (solar energy)
Why oceans are important to the water cycle.
What is they are the main source of evaporation and water storage
How human activity can affect the water cycle.
What is pollution, deforestation, or urban runoff changing natural water flow
Why climate is important to biomes.
What is climate determines what plants and animals can survive there?
The direction energy moves in a food web
What is one direction