Natural Cycles
This cycle describes how water moves between Earth's surface and the atmosphere, including processes like evaporation and precipitation.
What is the water cycle?
The first manned mission to land on the Moon.
What is Apollo 11?
Balance this equation:
H₂ + O₂ → H₂O
What is 2H₂ + O₂ → 2H₂O?
The layer of gases surrounding Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
The largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This process in the water cycle involves water changing from liquid to gas and rising into the atmosphere.
What is evaporation?
The length of time it takes Earth to orbit the Sun.
What is 1 year?
Balance this equation:
Na + Cl₂ → NaCl
What is 2Na + Cl₂ → 2NaCl?
The most powerful type of storm on Earth.
What is a hurricane?
The continuous movement of ocean water.
What is an ocean current?
In this cycle, carbon moves through Earth's atmosphere, plants, animals, and soil, and is essential for life.
What is the carbon cycle?
The phase of the Moon when it appears fully lit.
What is a full moon?
This compound is formed by the reaction of carbon dioxide and water and is the primary energy source for plants.
What is glucose?
The term for long-term weather patterns in an area.
What is climate?
Coral reefs are often found in warm, shallow waters near this line of latitude.
What is the tropics?
This cycle involves the movement of nitrogen between the atmosphere, soil, and living organisms, crucial for making proteins.
What is the nitrogen cycle?
The Moon's surface is covered in these bowl-shaped features.
What are craters?
This compound is formed when two hydrogen atoms bond with one oxygen atom and is essential for life.
What is water?
What is the scale called that we use to measure tornado destruction?
What is the F scale?
This large shark species is known as the "king of the ocean" and is the largest species of shark.
What is the great white shark?
This process in the carbon cycle involves plants absorbing carbon dioxide from the air and using it for photosynthesis.
What is carbon fixation?
This instrument is used to view distant objects in space.
What is a telescope?
Balance this equation:
Fe + O₂ → Fe₂O₃
What is 4Fe + 3O₂ → 2Fe₂O₃?
Lighting is how many times hotter than the suns surface?
What is 5x hotter?
Coral reefs cover less than this percentage of Earth's oceans, yet support about 25% of all marine species.
What is 1%?