Hydrologic
Nitrogen
Phosphorous
Carbon
Bonus
100
The movement of water throughout the atmosphere, biosphere, and lithosphere.
What is the hydrologic cycle?
100
The process where roots absorb nitrogen from the soil.
What is assimilation?
100
The only BGC cycle without an atmospheric component.
What is the Phosphorous cycle?
100
The process by which plants remove Carbon from the atmosphere.
What is photosynthesis?
100
Something that is necessary for life in an area. (Two words)
What is a limiting factor?
200
Cooled water vapor in the atmosphere.
What is condensation?
200
The process by which ammonia is turned into atmospheric nitrogen.
What is denitrification?
200
The process by which phosphorous is released from rocks.
What are weathering and erosion?
200
The process by which organisms release carbon into the atmosphere.
What is respiration?
200
This is how animals obtain nitrogen and phosphorous.
What is eating?
300
The release of water vapor by living organisms.
What is transpiration?
300
The three things which perform nitrogen fixation.
What are legumes, bacteria, and lightning?
300
The process by which phosphorous is uptaken by plants roots.
What is assimilation?
300
This is how Carbon can enter the Earth's lithosphere (ground).
What is decay?
300
A non-living storage of a chemical.
What is an Abiotic reservoir?
400
The three ways water is filtered in the hydrologic cycle.
What are evaporation, transpiration, and soil percolation?
400
Two essential molecules in our body made with nitrogen.
What are DNA and amino acids?
400
The process by which phosphorous rich seabed rocks are moved to the surface of the Earth.
What is geologic uplift?
400
The chemical form of Carbon found in the atmosphere.
What is CO2?
400
The percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere.
What is .04%?
500
The driving force behind the water cycle that does not exist on Earth...think heat.
What is the sun?
500
The two processes which produce ammonia/ammonium.
What are nitrogen fixation and ammonification?
500
The process that converts mud into rocks at the bottom of lakes, rivers, and oceans.
What are sedimentation and cementation?
500
The chemical formula of photosynthesis.
What is CO2 + H2O + Light = O2 + CH2O?
500
The two BGC cycles which have erosion as a step in the cycle.
What are the Carbon and Phosphorous cycles?
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