Seasons
The yearly orbit of Earth around the sun
What is revolution?
True or False: Earth has an unlimited supply of water.
What is FALSE?
This is where carbon is stored
What are carbon sinks?
The most important helper in the Nitrogen Cycle
What is bacteria?
This is formed when cold and warm air meet
What is a front?
The hemisphere that is tilted toward the Sun experiences this season
What is summer?
The type of energy water molecules have
What is kinetic energy?
This is how carbon is released..also give me an example of how carbon is released
What are carbon sources? Teacher will judge if the example given by the student is correct.
This change occurs during Fixation
What is N2 --> NH4
The name of an air mass that is wet and cold
What is Maritime Polar?
During this phenomenon, the Sun's rays strike the Earth at its northernmost and southernmost positions.
What are the solstices (winter ans summer)?
These two things drive the process of the water cycle
What are the Sun and the force of gravity?
This is another word for breathing
What is respiration?
This is formed during Nitrification
What are Nitrites(NO2) and Nitrates (NO3)?
This causes a front to be stationary
What is when neither the cold air mass or the warm air mass has enough force to push the other out of the way
The summer solstice is the longest day of the year. Describe two other things that occur during the summer solstice.
What is The hemisphere experiencing summer is titled closer to the sun than it ever has. Also, during the summer solstice, we get the most hours of daylight.
List the three states of water, with examples of each state
What are solid(snow), liquid (rain), gas (water vapor)?
These are responsible for triggering the release of carbon sources (also give an example)
What are releasing agents? Teacher will listen to the example given by the student to determine if it is correct.
The stage dedicated to the plants absorbing the absorbable nitrogen
Occurs when a warm air mass is blocked in between two cold air masses
What is an occluded front?
Compare and contrast solstices and equinoxes by identifying two ways they are similar and two ways that they differ.
Open Response..teacher will determine if answer is correct.
List the 5 parts that make up the water cycle. In addition, tell me if any type of water state change occurs at a specific part during the cycle.
Open Response, teacher will decided if answer is correct or not.
List and Describe 3 sinks and 3 sources.
Sinks - tree, limestone, organisms, buried organic matter, plastic
Sources - burning, weathering, respiration, decomposition
The stage of the Nitrogen cycle where the Nitrites and Nitrates are broken down and released back into the atmosphere as N2
What is Denitrification?
This air mass would likely form over the Gulf of Mexico
What is a Maritime Tropical air mass?