Biogeochemical Cycles page 121
This is circulated as energy enters an ecosystem and goes from one organism to another, then traveling into the atmosphere.
What is physical matter?
This is the cycle that carries nutrients, sediments and pollutants from the continents using runoff:
What is the water cycle?
This is where you can find the carbon cycle.
What is in all living things?
When was CBF founded, what does it stand for and why is it relevant to the nitrogen cycle?
This contains the vast majority of Earth's phosphorus:
What is sedimentary rocks?
The reading mentions this kind of atom that is in your fingernail today might have been inside the muscle of a cow a year ago.
What is a carbon atom?
Warm temperatures and strong winds do this:
What is speed up evaporation?
This is what autotrophs use in photosynthesis:
This describes one way nitrogen fixation can be accomplished that relates to the atmosphere:
What is intense energy by lightening strikes?
Improving technology in sewage treatment plants would influence this:
What is enhance nitrogen and phosphorus capture?
Explain how our nutrients can be made into other organisms far in the future:
What is when we die the nutrients in our bodies disperse into the environment?
2/3 of the fresh water on earth is made of these three things.
What is glaciers, snowfields, icecaps?
This happens to release CO2 through digestion:
What is when an animal is eaten by another animal ?
This describes one what of how nitrogen fixation can be accomplished that relates to the soil:
What is when nitrogen in the air comes in contact with particular types of nitrogen-fixing bacteria?
What is nitrogen inputs where higher while phosphorus inputs were lower?
The residence time and flux describe these two things:
What is it when nutrients stay in one place for varying amounts of time and what it is called when they move?
This is considered the water table:
What is the upper limit of groundwater held in an aquifer?
This is why and how carbon in the atmosphere affects our climate
What is too much carbon (how) leads to heating the planet (why)?
Describe why the nitrogen cycle is vital to organisms:
What is helps in converting inert nitrogen gas into a useable form for plants to absorb?
In the past century, this is how much he waters of Chesapeake Bay risen and why
What is 30 cm or 1 ft and the book sites climate change?
Description of sink
What is it called when a reservoir accepts more materials than it releases?
The domestic use of water that depletes rivers, lakes, and streams causes this:
What is water shortages?
This is the main way we affect the carbon cycle:
What is by decomposing carbon faster as we burn coal, oil, natural gas?
What is nitrification?
Water begins to erode away the bank in areas where humans do this:
What is when vegetation is cleared from a riverbank?