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Cycles of Matter

Cycles of Matter

Assessment

Presentation

Science

5th Grade

Easy

NGSS
MS-LS2-3, MS-LS1-6, MS-ESS2-4

+4

Standards-aligned

Created by

Angela DeRosa

Used 200+ times

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11 Slides • 14 Questions

1

Cycles of Matter

Review!

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2

The Water Cycle

Evaporation --> Condensation --> Precipitation

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3

Three important processes of the Water Cycle

  • Evaporation --> liquid turning into a gas

  • Condensation --> gas turning into a liquid, forms clouds

  • Precipitation --> liquid droplets falling from the clouds

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4

Multiple Choice

Which describes the process of evaporation?

1

puddle on a warm day disappearing into thin air.

2

water droplets on a window

3

rain

5

Multiple Choice

What process forms clouds?

1

Evaporation

2

Condensation

3

Precipitation

4

Transpiration

6

Transpiration

Plants are sweating! Water vapor is escaping through their leaves.

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7

Fill in the Blank

Sweating is to humans as ______________ is to plants.

8

The Carbon-Oxygen Cycle

Key Words

Producer, Consumer, Decomposer, Photosynthesis, Respiration

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Key Vocabulary Words

  • Producer --> organisms that gain energy by making their own food, goes through photosynthesis

  • Consumer --> organisms that need to eat other organisms to gain energy.

  • Decomposer--> organism that breaks down dead organisms and returns nutrients back to the soil.

10

Multiple Choice

Which is an example of a producer?

1

Algae

2

Cow

3

Worm

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Multiple Choice

Which is an example of a decomposer?

1

Bacteria

2

Algae

3

Humans

12

Key Vocabulary Words Continued

  • Photosynthesis --> process that plants go through to produce food and release oxygen to humans.

  • Respiration --> The breathing process

13

Multiple Choice

What three things do plants need to go through photosynthesis?

1

Carbon Dioxide, fish, food

2

Carbon Dioxide, sunlight, water

3

Oxygen, Sunlight, Water

14

Multiple Choice

What do humans breathe in?

1

Oxygen

2

Carbon Dioxide

15

Multiple Choice

What gas do plants absorb?

1

Carbon Dioxide

2

Oxygen

16

How Humans Impact the Carbon-Oxygen Cycle!

Humans complete everyday activities that impact the Carbon-Oxygen Cycle.


*Burn Fossil Fuelds (gasoline, oil)

*Deforestation (cut down trees)

*Build Fires

*Breathe (humans breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide)

17

Open Ended

What would happen to the carbon-oxygen cycle if all the producers died?

18

The Nitrogen Cycle

Decomposer, Nitrogen Fixation, Nodules, Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria

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Key Terms

  • Decomposer --> Breaks down organisms and returns nitrogen back into the soil

  • Nitrogen Fixation --> process that turns "free nitrogen" into usable nitrogen.

  • Nodules --> Bumps on roots of plants that house bacteria.

  • Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria --> Housed in the nodules of plants, changes nitrogen into usable form.

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Nitrogen Cycle Key Concepts

  • ALL Organisms need nitrogen

  • About 78 % of our air is nitrogen

  • We CANNOT use the "free nitrogen" in the air that is why it must be "fixed" first.

  • Plants get nitrogen through their roots from the soil.

  • Animals get nitrogen by consuming other things that have nitrogen in them (plants or other animals)

21

Multiple Select

Choose which percentage of nitrogen makes up the air.

1

78 %

2

92 %

3

100 %

22

Multiple Choice

Which organisms need nitrogen?

1

Plants

2

Animals

3

Humans

4

All of the Above

23

Multiple Choice

We can use the "free" nitrogen that is in the air.

1

TRUE

2

FALSE

24

Open Ended

What would happen if all the nitrogen-fixing organisms died?

25

Open Ended

What would happen if one part of a cycle did not happen?

Cycles of Matter

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