Water Cycle
Name the process by which water is continually recycling between the earth’s surface and the atmosphere.
What is the water cycle?
Puffy, white clouds that look like piles of cotton balls with flat bottoms.
What is Cumulus clouds?
Things that are living.
What is biotic?
Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents. Rain that turns to ice pellets.
What is hail?
A lake, desert, marsh, or other environments where living and nonliving things live and depend on one another.
What is an ecosystem?
Name the gas state of water.
What is water vapor?
Name a word that relates to the moon.
What is luna?
A plant that makes its own food from the energy of the sun. They form the base of the food web.
What is producer?
A change in a state of matter from a liquid to a solid, such as when water turns to ice.
What is freeze?
A biome where grasses are the main plant life.
What is a grassland?
Name the change in a state of matter from a gas or vapor to a liquid.
What is condensation?
Thin, feathery, wispy clouds. They are made of ice crystals. They appear high in the sky.
What is cirrus clouds?
The home of an organism.
What is habitat?
The path that a planet or moon follows as it travels in space.
What is orbit?
The process by which green plants make their own food using sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
The change in a state of matter from a liquid to a gas or vapor.
What is evaporation?
A group of stars, gas, and dust, such as the Milky Way.
What is the galaxy?
One of Earth’s large ecosystems, with its own kind of climate, soil, and living things.
What is biome?
An animal (consumer) that feeds on both animals and plants.
What is ominivore?
Water that is still. Examples are ponds and lakes.
What is lentic water?
The change in a state of matter from a liquid to a gas or vapor.
What is evaporation?
The force that pulls things down towards the surface of the earth and keep them from flowing away into space.
What is gravity?
Non-living things in an ecosystem.
What is abiotic?
Water that is moving such as rivers, streams, and creeks.
What is lotic water?
The path of the transfer of food energy from one living thing to another.
What is food chain?