Water Cycle
____ occurs when rising water vapor meets cold and turns into water droplets.
What is Evaporation?
The organisms that TAKE in oxygen
What are Plants?
Animals get nitrogen by ____
What is Eating Plants?
The process of water falling from clouds in the form of rain, sleet, snow, etc.
What is precipitation?
Free response: Name 3 abiotic factors in an ecosystem.
What is anything that is non-living.
The place that powers the water cycle.
What is The Sun?
This process is caused by the constant heating up of the Earth due to the burning of too much fossil fuel.
What is Global Warming?
This key component is crucial to the nitrogen cycle.
What is Bacteria?
The process by which carbon is moved from dead animals into the ground.
Water is known as the Universal ___.
What is Solvent?
The process where water vapor cools, and changes back into water.
What is Condesation?
The process by which carbon dioxide enters the atmosphere through burning.
What is Combustion?
When plants and animals die, these organisms are responsible for releasing nitrogen gas back into the atmosphere.
What are decomposers?
The process by which bacteria in the soil converts nitrates into nitrogen gas.
What is Denitrification?
Clouds are created during this Water Cycle process.
What is Condensation?
The process of water falling from the sky onto the surface of the Earth, and then eventually back into a body of water.
What is Runoff?
Carbon turns into these objects when left in the soil for millions of years.
What are Fossil Fuels?
This process comes first in the process of nitrification.
What is Nitrogen gas traveling from air to soil?
This form of precipitation is formed when snow melts, but then refreezes into ice pellets as it falls to the Earth
What is Sleet?
This is the chemical formula for ammonia.
NH3
The releasing of water from a plants stomata through evaporation.
What is Transpiration?
The process that animals do to release carbon into the atmosphere.
What is Respiration?
Plants use nitrogen absorbed by the roots in the soil to make this substance.
What is Protein?
What are carbohydrates?
Carbon Dioxide from the air that dissolves into water and eventually into salt is know as this substance.
What is bicarbonate?