Carbon and Water Cycles

What is it called when plants give off water vapor as a waste product?

• condensation

• evaporation

• sublimation

• transpiration

What is water that flows in rivers and streams into the oceans and lakes?

• evaporating
• condensing
• precipitating
• runoff

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What is water vapor doing when it changes to liquid water (ex. forming clouds)?

• evaporating

• condensing

• precipitating

• runoff

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

A shows water going from oceans, soil and lakes into the atmosphere. What is A?

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Runoff

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The process by which water on the ground surface enters the soil.

• Evaporation

• Rain

• Infiltration

• Watershed

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Organisms can be buried and become what through the process of deposition?

• water

• fire

• air

• fossil fuels

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Which of the following aquatic creatures creates a carbon-based shell which can decay and form limestone through sedimentation?

• plants and animals

• fish

• corals and oysters

• decomposers

Combustion is another word for _______________.

• a train
• a bus
• a dog
• burning

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Carbon dioxide is used by plants to make sugar and oxygen through the process called __________ .

• carbon cycle

• life

• photosynthesis

• decomposition

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3