Water Cycle
Classified as rain, snow, or sleet that falls to the Earth's surface.
What is precipitation?
The process by which plants use carbon dioxide to create food.
What is photosynthesis?
A natural resource that cannot be used up.
What is a renewable resource?
Maple Syrup
What is a nonrenewable resource?
Materials that absorb carbon from our atmosphere. Examples include ocean, atmosphere, soil, etc.
What is a carbon "sink"?
When water vapor cools and turns into drops of liquid water.
What is condensation?
The mechanism by which trees are removed and release carbon dioxide.
A natural resource that is finite.
What is a nonrenewable resource?
Solar power
What is a renewable resource?
A compound of gas that is created when carbon is in the presence of oxygen.
What is carbon dioxide?
When liquid water on Earth's surface turns into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
What is combustion?
A material made from natural resources that have been chemically altered.
What is a synthetic resource?
Disposable Diapers
What is a synthetic resource?
Any type of material or energy that humans use to meet their needs.
What is a resource?
Water that flows over land into streams and rivers.
What is runoff?
The process by which organisms decay and the carbon they store is absorbed by Earth's surface.
What is decomposition?
Renewable and nonrenewable resources are both...
What are natural resources?
Coal.
What is a nonrenewable resource?
The maximum number of individuals that an ecosystem can support.
What is carrying capacity?
When plants give off water vapor from tiny holes in their leaves.
What is transpiration?
An underground material that absorbs much of the carbon from the atmosphere.
What is soil?
Synthetic resources are also referred to as..
What are man made resources?
Hydropower
What is a renewable resource?
The carrying capacity of room 2403.
What is 24 chairs?