Water Cycle
Which step in the water cycle changes water vapor to liquid water?
Condensation
What process do plants do to live?
Photosynthesis
What is a producer?
An organism that creates its own food using sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide
Plants get the energy needed to grow from the
Sun
What powers all the cycles?
The sun
What step(s) of the water cycle don't change the state of matter of water?
Precipitation, Runoff
Where does photosynthesis take place in the plant?
Leaf
What is another word for an herbivore?
Primary consumer
Plants get the materials needed to grow from
water, air (carbon dioxide)
What annotations am I looking for on the test?
Cross/check, underlining key details, labeling food chains/webs with appropriate vocabulary
What is the order of the water cycle?
Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation, Runoff
How can plants find sunlight if they can move? Bonus points if you remember name.
They grow towards the direction of the sun (phototropism)
What is a quaternary consumer?
An organism that consumes a tertiary consumer
What restarts the matter + energy cycle and how is it done?
Decomposers. They break down dead organisms and return the nutrients to the soil for plants to grow
What must occur for a liquid to turn into a gas?
Thermal energy/heat must be added
Name 4 places Runoff can go to
Ocean, River, Lake, Sea, Pond, Delta, Gulf, Bay
Plants make oxygen and something else during photosynthesis. Give me the 3 names that are acceptable for that other thing.
Food, Sugar, Glucose
What are the 3 classifications of consumers and what do they mean? (not primary, secondary...)
Omnivores (eats producers and consumers), Carnivores (eats consumers), Herbivores (eats producers)
What does MR. GREENU stand for?
Made of cells, Reproduces, Grows, Response to environment, Exchanges gas, Excrete waste, Uses energy
What is the difference between a control group and a constant in an experiment?
Constant is something that stays the same in each group and control group is the group that doesn't receive the independent variable
Which step of the water cycle is most important for plants? Why?
Precipitation. It provides plants with 1/3 of the materials needed to grow.
Michael says plants take water from the air through leaves, so he doesn't need to water the roots of his plant. Is he right for most plants? Explain.
No. Plants do take water from the air through their leaves, but plants get majority of the water they need through their leaves, with the exception of a few plants
Which of the organisms in the image are predators and prey? Why?
Bluebird and Snake. They both hunt and are hunted
Which of the cycles we have learned exhibits the Law of Conservation of Mass? How does the cycle do it?
BOTH! Water Cycle and Energy + Matter Cycle conserve mass. Water is continually recycled through the 4 steps in the cycle and mass is passed from producer to consumer to decomposer then back to producer.
What is an example of a nonliving thing that reproduces?
Viruses (computer or like covid), crystals