Cycles of Nature

What happens when water vapor loses thermal energy?

• it expands into millions of droplets that form clouds

• it condenses into millions of droplets that form clouds

• it condenses into millions of droplets that form lakes and rivers

• it expands on the surface of plants and goes into the air

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

____ happens when liquid turns into a gas on Earth's surface

• evaporation

• condensation

• respiration

• transpiration

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

What is precipitation?

• Sweat from our bodies on hot days

• Warm rain but not cold snow or sleet

• Gas that we use in furnaces or ovens

• Any form of water that falls from the sky

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Condensation occurs when water vapor_____________.

• heats up and becomes liquid water

• cools off and becomes liquid water

• freezes and becomes ice

• rains on the land

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

The process when plants release water vapor from their leaves is called _____________.

• precipitation

• evaporation

• transpiration

• condensation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The process by which water moves through the soil

• Precipitation

• Percolation

• Condensation

• Evaporation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The process of burning is called _____.

• decomposition
• combustion
• respiration

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS1-5

Respiration is the process by which animals take in _____ and release _____ to make energy. 

• photosynthesis, air
• carbon, oxygen
• oxygen
• oxygen, carbon dioxide

How animals get the nitrogen they need

• from the air they breathe
• from the water they drink
• from the food they eat
• from the Sun

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

How nitrogen is "fixed" into useable form for plants

• only through action of bacteria
• only through lightning
• through action of bacteria & lightning
• through photosynthesis

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3