Water Cycle Recap
The part of the water cycle that includes rain, sleet, hail, and snow?
What is precipitation?
Air, water, sun, plants, and animals, are all examples of
What are renewable resources?
Weathering is...
What is the breakdown of rocks into tiny pieces?
Minerals like diamonds and gems are _____ resources.
What are nonrenewable?
What is it called when you reduce, reuse, and recycle?
What is conservation?
Liquid water turning into water vapor is
The natural resource that is mined from the ground and comes from ancient trees?
What is coal?
The dropping of sediment in a new location
What is deposition?
A glacier slowly moving and sliding down a hill is...
What is erosion?
Recycling helps save the environment by...
Water vapor collects to form droplets (think of clouds)...
What is condensation?
What are iron and natural gas?
Frost wedging is...
What is when water gets into cracks in rocks and freezes and breaks them apart? (also a kind of weathering)
A stream table models weathering and erosion and is tilted down on an angle. Where will most of the deposition occur?
What is the bottom of the table?
What is an example of reducing?
What is turning off the lights, unplugging devices when not using them, etc.
When water starts to pool up and collect somewhere
What is accumulation?
I am planting more trees after cutting some down. This shows that trees are...
What is renewable?
If heavy rain caused small pebbles to wash away and pile up, which two things would be responsible?
What is erosion and deposition?
The physical property of rocks that allows Earth's natural resources to be stored there.
What are holes and cracks in the rock?
Conserving natural resources impacts the environment by...
What is it helps reduce pollution, save wildlife, and save natural resources (forests, water, and minerals) for future generations?
The process of water on plants evaporating
A plastic button made from oil is an example of a _____ resource.
What is nonrenewable?
What is erosion?
A. Some are used at a rate faster than they can be replenished
B. Sunlight, wind, and water are available indefinitely (or forever)
What is A. some are used at a rate faster than they can be replenished?
The Deepwater Horizon incident involved this nonrenewable resource.
What is oil?