Water cycle
What is Evaporation?
When the sun heats up the water and it turns into a gas form and rises.
by what process do plants take in carbon dioxide and turn it into energy
Photosynthesis
Where does most of the nitrogen cycle take place
Underground
What is there purpose of the phosphorus cycle
To move phosphorus around living organism
An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
ecosystem
How does ocean/lake water return to the atmosphere
What two ways is carbon released back into the atmosphere
Respiration and decomposition
Why do living things need nitrogen?
To make protein
what are the 4 stages of the phosphorus cycle
These organisms are herbivores, therefore they are called ______________ consumers.
primary
evaporation
transpiration
condensation
precipitation
How does the human body return carbon to the atmosphere in the carbon cycle?
Cellular respiration
Ammonia released into soil is transformed into what
Ammonium
How do humans obtain phosphorus
their food
The two major types of water ecosystems.
freshwater and marine
What is the percentage of the water stored in the oceans?
97%
Where is most of the worlds carbon stored
In rocks and sediment
Nitrogen fixation
What form is phosphorus transported in
liquid form
These animals have not changed for thousands of years.
living fossils
What is Transpiration
When plants release water through there leaves to be evaporated
Where does all the carbon in organisms originate from?
Atmosphere
What types of plants can use naturally occurring nitrogen?
legumes
What type of phosphorus do dead animals release
inorganic phosphorus
A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate and produce fertile offspring
species