Nitrogen cycle
What is the biggest Nitrogen Sink?
The atmosphere
What is the biggest sink of phosphorous?
the geosphere
The process of evaporation through plants?
Transpiration
What is the process of plants taking in carbon to release oxygen and glucose called?
Photosynthesis
Nitrogen is held by what type of bond that makes it the strongest force to separate?
A triple bond
How does phosphorous make it to the surface?
Geological uplift, tectonic plates, and erosion.
What is it called when runoff water seeps into the soil?
infiltration
What is the biggest carbon sink?
The ocean
What happens when nitrogen runoff leaks into bodies of fresh water.
It causes eutrophication
How is phosphorous different from the other cycles?
There is no phosphorous in the atmosphere?
what process occurs when liquid water driven by the suns heat turns into water vaper and rises into the atmosphere?
Evaporation
Which of the earth's spheres does carbon travel through?
The Atmosphere, Biosphere, Hydrosphere, and Geosphere.