Question | Answer |
What is acid rain? | Rain that has a pH lower than 5.6 |
What is aquifer? | An underground area of sediment and rocks where groundwater collects. |
What is carnivore? | An organism that eats herbivores or other carnivores. |
What is condensation? | The process by which a substance in its gaseous state loses energy and enters itss liquid state. One phase in the water cycle. |
What is evaporation? | The process by which a substance int its liquid state gains enrgy and enters its gaseous state. One phase of the water cycle. |
What is food chain? | A series of steps through which energy and nutrients are transferred from organism to organism in an ecosystem. |
What is ground water? | Water that collects underground in an aquifer. This water supplies wells and spring. |
What is herbivore? | An organis that eats produces(e.g plants or algae) |
What is hydrosphere? | The water layer of Earth's surfacee. |
Wwat is precipitation? | Water vapor in the atmosphere falling back to Earth in the form of rain, hail, sleet, or snow. One phase in the water cycle. |
What is producer? | A plant or otherr organism that concentrates energy from the sun through photosynthesis. |
What is reservoir? | Protected artificial or natural lakes. |
What is salinity? | easures how much salt is dissolved in one kilogram of water. |
What is surface runoff? | Water that flows over land until it reaches lakes, rivers, or other surface water areas. |
What is surface water? | Water contained in places such as lakes, pond, rivers, streas and reservoirs. |
What is transpiration? | Process in which plants open tiny open pores on their leaves to gain carbon dioxide but lose water. One phase in the water cycle. |
What is water cycle? | Describes how watermoves around the Earth by the processes of evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and transpiration. |
What is watershed? | An area of land that catches all rain and snow and collects its in one place like a river. |