Carbon Cycle Vocab.
Carbon Cycle
Nitrogen Cycle
Water Cycle
Miscellaneous
100
The physical breaking down of rocks
What is weathering
100
The process by which carbon is moved from dead animals to the ground
What is decomposition
100
bacteria in the soil converts the nitrates into atmospheric nitrogen
What is Denitrification
100
Water vapor in liquid form that falls from the cloud as rainf, sleet, snow or hail
What is precipitation
100
What is NH4+
What is ammonium
200
Autotrophs make their own food by using energy from the sun to make sugar.
What is Photosynthesis
200
Carbon move from rock storage by.
What is weathering and erosion
200
Bacteria on the roots of legumes plants convert nitrogen into ammonium or nitrates.
What is Nitrification
200
The change in physical state from gas to liquid
What is condensation
200
NO3- represents this
What is Nitrates
300
Cells convert sugar to energy, CO2 is released.
What is Respiration
300
Three ways carbon is moved ground to the atmosphere?
What is burning of fossil fuels, forest fires, and volcanic eruptions.
300
Plants that contain nitrogen fixing bacteria on the roots
What is legumes
300
The change in physical state from liquid to gas
What is evaporation
300
Cash crop of legumes here in Iowa
What is soy beans
400
The movement of broken down rocks by water and wind
What is Erosion
400
The 2 processes animals do to add carbon to the atmosphere.
What is Methane gas and respiration
400
How do animals get their nitrogen.
What is to consume it.
400
What is it when evaporation occurs from the pores of a plant leaf
What is transpiration
400
2 cover crops of legumes.
What is clover and alfalfa
500
Movement of particles from high to low
What is diffusion
500
Acid rain is made by mixing these 2 compounds in the carbon cycle
What is Carbon dioxide and Water
500
What other 2 processes add to the creation of ammonium and nitrates.
What is animal waste and decomposition.
500
When water moves over the land after a rain
What is runoff
500
This process is considered the carbon scrubbers
What is photosynthesis
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