Water Cycle
The initial energy source for this cycle.
What is the Sun
Source of carbon in the atmosphere specific to humans behaviour
The largest nitrogen source
What is the atmosphere
Phosphorus is a major element of this energy package
What is ATP
The alternate planting of soil-enriching to soil-depleting crops on one area of land
What is strip cropping
Process of water going from liquid to gas
What is Evaporation
Process in which a carbon compound creates glucose
What is Photosynthesis
NH4+ (or NH3)
What is ammonium/ammonia
Major component of this structure as it combines to make a “sugar-phosphate backbone”
What is DNA
The removal of soil and rock by the action of moving air and water
What is erosion
The level where water saturates soil particles.
What is the water table?
What is the largest carbon sink found on Earth?
What are oceans
Human activity that returns nitrogen to poor soils (hint: agriculture)
Helps in the dissolution of phosphate compounds.
What is water (due to polarity)
The increase in concentration of a chemical as it moves up the food chain
What is biomagnification
Property of water which makes it so important in biogeochemical cycles
What is Solvency- the ability to dissolve other particles
The process of carbon dioxide trapping energy in the atmosphere and increasing the temperature on earth.
What is the Greenhouse Effect
Name of the process for converting nitrogen gas to ammonium by bacteria and lightning
What is Nitrogen fixation
Location(s) of phosphorus stores
What is soil and rock
Three types of symbiosis between organisms
The movement of a liquid through a porous material.
This historical event (1700s) has seen rapid increase in carbon dioxide into the atmosphere
What is the Industrial Revolution
Organism that converts nitrate ions to nitrogen gas
What are bacteria
Only area of the biosphere where you will not find phosphorus
What is the atmosphere
two sources of the chemicals responsible for acidic deposition (acid precipitation)
What are motor vehicles (cars, trucks, trains, airplanes, and boats), factories, coal burning, and emissions of fossil fuel burning