The Water Cycle
What is the main energy source for the water cycle?
What is the Sun?
What do we call short-term atmospheric conditions?
What is weather?
Is wind a renewable or nonrenewable resource?
What is renewable?
What does it mean to conserve resources?
What is to save or use wisely?
What is porosity?
What is having small holes for drainage?
What is the process where water changes from a liquid to a gas?
What is evaporation?
Give one example of a weather condition.
What is temperature/wind/cloud cover/etc.?
Name a nonrenewable resource.
What is coal/oil/natural gas?
What is one way to reduce?
What is turning off lights, using less water, etc.?
What is permeability?
What is the ability to let matter flow through?
What forms when water vapor turns into a liquid?
What is condensation?
What term describes long-term weather patterns in an area?
What is climate?
Why are nonrenewable resources called “nonrenewable”?
What is they take millions of years to form?
Why is recycling important?
What is it saves resources and reduces landfill waste?
What type of rock stores groundwater?
What is porous rock like sandstone or limestone?
Name the type of precipitation that includes ice pellets.
What is sleet?
Is “It’s 95°F today” weather or climate?
What is weather?
What is one advantage of renewable resources?
What is less pollution or more for future generations?
Where should electronics or batteries be taken for disposal?
What is a disposal area?
What is an aquifer?
What is an underground area where groundwater is stored?
Why is the ocean important in the water cycle?
What is it’s the main source of water for the cycle?
Name one climate zone.
What is tropical/dry/temperate/polar?
What is one disadvantage of nonrenewable resources?
What is they cause pollution or will run out?
How does composting help the environment?
What is it gives nutrients back to the soil?
Name one valuable mineral or ore and how it’s used.
What is copper for electronics, bauxite for cans, etc.?