Question | Answer |
What is Absorption? | Precipitation soaking into the ground. |
What is an Aquifer? | Ground water stored underground and in between rocks. |
What is Condensation? | When water vapor turns liquid water into and becomes visible as cloud, fog, or water droplets. |
What is Evaporation? | When liquid water turns into water vapor. (Gas) |
What is Groundwater? | Water that is under the surface of the ground. |
What is Humidity? | The Measurement of amount of water vapor in the air. |
What is Precipitation? | Water in the form of rain, sleet, snow, or hail. |
What is a Run Off? | Water that is not absorbed so it flows downhill, usually into a body of water. |
What is Surface Water? | Water that is not absorbed and collects in ponds, lakes, streams, or rivers. |
What is Transpiration? | Water that sweats and evaporates from a plant, mostly from the underside of the leaves. |
What is a Watershed? | The entire region of land draining into river, river system, or other body of water. |
What is an Impervious Surface? | Material that water is not able to soak into. |
What is Infiltration? | Water soaking into soli or other surface material. |
What is an Aquatic Invasive Species? | Water organisms that invade other ecosystems beyond their natural range. |
What is a Carnivore? | A consumer that only eats other animals. |
What is an Ecosystem? | All the living and non living things that interact on the habitat. |
What is a Food Web? | Consists of many food chains overlapping in an ecosystem. |
What is Photosynthesis? | How some organisms use sunlight to make their own food. |
What is a Consumer? | An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms. |
What is an Energy Pyramid? | Shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web. |
What is a Herbivore? | Consumers that only eat plants. |
What is a Producer? | An organism that can make its own food. |
What is a Decomposer? | Breaks down waste and dead organisms and returns raw materials to the ecosystem. |
What is a Food Chain? | A series of events in which one organism eats another for food and obtains energy. |
What is a Omnivore? | Consumers that eat plants and animals. |
What are Scavengers? | A carnivore that feeds on dead organisms. |