Water Cycle
Oxygen Cycle
Carbon Cycle
Nitrogen Cycle
Miscellaneous
100

What are the forms of precipitation?

rain, sleet, snow, and hail

100

Animals take in _______ and release _______

Take in oxygen, release carbon dioxide

100

What is the most abundant form of carbon in the atmosphere?

CO2; carbon dioxide

100

What is the most important organism within the nitrogen cycle?

Bacteria

100

In the carbon cycle, why are the gases called fossil fuels when an animal or plant dies?

Because dead things become fossils
200

What stage comes from plants?

Transpiration

200

Plants take in ______ and release _______

take in carbon, release oxygen

200

How are fossil fuels burned and produced back into the atmosphere?

Factories, car emissions, etc.

200

In Nitrogen fixation, nitrogen is "fixed" with what two elements

Oxygen and Hydrogen

200

What is the carbon cycle like in the ocean?

Virtually the same as the regular carbon cycle, just uses oceanic plants

300
What is an "aquifer"?

Underground layers of rock that are saturated with water, and can be brought to the surface through natural springs or pumping.

300

What process do plants use to release oxygen?

Photosynthesis

300

How are fossil fuels created?

When animals and plants die/ decompose

300

What 3 factors can "fix" nitrogen?

Lightning, bacteria, and the Hagar Bosch (man-made fertilizers).

300

What does "Global Warming" mean?

The heating up of the earths atmosphere and surface to to the long-term effects of greenhouse gases.

400

What happens during the condensation stage?

Water vapor cools and forms clouds

400

What is the respiration equation?

C6H12O6 + 6O2 --> 6CO2 + 6H2O + energy

400

What product do plants produce through photosynthesis?

Sugars/glucose; C6H12O6

400

Nitrification produces what two forms of nitrogen?

Nitrites and Nitrates, NO2 & NO3

400

What is the greenhouse effect?

the trapping of gases in Earth's atmosphere to prevent freezing

500

What are the five stages of evaporation?

Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation, Accumulation, and Transpiration

500

What is the equation (formula) for photosynthesis?

6CO2 + 6H2O → C6H12O6 + 6O2

500

What are the stages of the carbon cycle?

Atmosphere ----> plants ------> animals--------> fossil fuels--------> burning of fossil fuels

500

What are the 4 stages of the nitrogen cycle?

Nitrogen Fixation, Ammonification, Nitrification, and Denitrification

500

Melting snow from mountains becomes this?

Runoff, and turns into a river.

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