Water Cycle
Can living things use atmospheric Nitrogen (N2)?
NO
Matter cannot be created or destroyed?
What is The Law of Conservation of Matter.
H2O
What is Water.
Which biological process do plants use to take in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and get energy?
What is photosynthesis.
What is another name for the water cycle?
What is the Hydrologic cycle.
What type of organisms "fix" the nitrogen into a form that we can use?
What is bacteria (either in the soil or in the roots of legumes).
What are the steps of the water cycle?
What is evaporation, transpiration, condensation, precipitation, and accumulation.
CO2?
What is Carbon Dioxide.
Name two ways that carbon is released into the atmosphere ?
What is cellular respiration and Combustion.
How does ocean/lake water return to the atmosphere?
What is evaporation.
How much of the atmosphere is made of Nitrogen Gas?
What is 78%.
What is the law of conservation of energy?
What is "energy cannot be created or destroyed"
N2?
What is Nitrogen Gas.
Humans have contributed more carbon to the carbon cycle by doing what?
What is burning fossil fuels.
Which process within the water cycle includes water evaporating from the leaves of plants?
What is transpiration.
Name the four steps of the nitrogen cycle?
What are Nitrogen Fixation, Ammonification, Nitrification, and Denitrification.
How are cellular respiration and photosynthesis related?
The products from photosynthesis are used as reactants in cellular respiration.
The products of cellular respiration are used as reactants in photosynthesis.
Which process is represented by this formula?
6CO2+ 6H2O + energy → C6H12O6 + 6O2.
What is photosynthesis.
Name two ways Carbon is removed from the atmosphere.
What is photosynthesis and fossilization.
Water returns to the lakes and oceans during this step of the water cycle
What is Accumulation.
What is nitrogen used for in living organisms?
What are DNA, RNA, and Proteins.
Where does the majority of the nitrogen cycle occur?
What is underground/ in the soil.
What process is represented by this formula?
C6H12O6 + 6O2 → 6CO2 + 6H2O + energy
What is Cellular Respiration.
Which process releases carbon dioxide as a waste product?
What is cellular respiration.