The Water Cycle
What elements are associated with the water cycle?
Hydrogen and oxygen
What element is associated with the nitrogen cycle?
What element is associated with the carbon cycle?
Carbon
Precipitation is a stage in which cycle?
The Water Cycle
True or False: Transpiration is when plants sweat.
True! Transpiration is the process where plants absorb water through their roots and release it as water vapor through tiny pores in their leaves.
True or False: An abundance of nitrogen can be toxic.
True!
True or False: Carbon only exists in living things.
False! Most of the carbon on earth is found in rocks, minerals, and other sediment buried beneath the surface.
True or false: Each cycle follows a specific path and repeats in the same order every time.
False.
Which stage of the water cycle is where ice or snow turns directly into water vapor without melting into liquid first?
Sublimation
What percent of our crops would we lose if we did not have enough nitrogen?
1/3 (one-third)
True or false: The amount of carbon on the planet never changes.
True! The amount in a reservoir can change as carbon moves but the total cannot.
Which element is the most abundant in our atmosphere?
Nitrogen. It makes up 78%
Name one category in which we can preserve our water. (Hint: reading from stations)
HOME WATER CONSERVATION, LANDSCAPING AND GARDENING CHOICES, INNOVATIONS IN WATER SYSTEMS, POLICY AND PRICING REFORM. COMMUNITY EDUCATION AND ACTION
In which stage of the nitrogen cycle does nitrogen return to the air/atmosphere?
Denitrification: nitrates convert to atmospheric nitrogen by bacteria
What is one process that causes carbon to move through reservoirs?
photosynthesis, burning fossil fuels, breathing.
Burning of fossil fuels affects which cycle specifically?
The Carbon Cycle. Balance has been upset by the burning of fossil fuels because it adds more carbon to the atmosphere than usual.
What are the 7 stages of the water cycle?
Evaporation, transpiration, condensation, precipitation, runoff/collection, groundwater, and sublimation.
What are the 5 stages of the nitrogen cycle?
fixation, mineralization, nitrification, immobilization, denitrification.
What are the 5 reservoirs in the carbon cycle?
Rocks, Oceans, Atmosphere, Biosphere, Fossil Fuels
Which cycle is Miss Jones' favorite.....
The Water Cycle!