Water
How many steps is the water cycle?
Ten
What does CO2 stand for?
Carbon dioxide
Why is nitrogen essential?
Why is it essential?
it is a component of nucleic acids, ATP, and membrane phospholipids.
Energy flows in what direction?
Energy flows in one direction
What is step 7 of the water cycle?
Percolation- water moving thought the soil
What stores carbon?
Photosynthesis
What is the main inorganic storage reservoir for nitrogen?
Atmospheric Nitrogen
Where is most phosphorus stored?
It is stored within rocks and soil
Carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycle between?
Abiotic reservoirs and biotic reservoirs
What is the first step of the water cycle?
When is carbon released?
Microbes
What does phosphorous cycle through?
Producers and consumers
What does eutrophication cause?
Oxygen-poor water that cannot sustain much life.
What is it called when the surface takes in water from precipitation.
Infiltration
Why is carbon important?
It is a part of all organic molecules
How to herbivores and predators obtain nitrogen?
By eating producers.
What returns phosphorous to the soil
Decomposers
Animals move chemicals between...
What are the steps of the water cycle listed in order?
1. Producers and consumers 2. Evaporation 3. Condensation 4. Precipitation 5. Interception 6. Infiltration 7. Percolation 8. Transpiration 9. Runoff 10. Storage
What is the main inorganic storage reservoir for carbon?
CO2
What happens during denitrification?
What are the main inorganic storage reservoirs for phosphorus?
Phosphate-rich rocks
They gain it by eating.