Carbon Cycle
Process that plants use to contribute to the carbon cycle by removing carbon dioxide and changing it into the carbon compound glucose.
What is PHOTOSYNTHESIS?
Liquid water changes to a gas using the sun's energy.
What is EVAPORATION?
Name of weather process that fixes nitrogen.
What is LIGHTNING?
Phase of matter that phosphorus rarely occurs as.
What is a GAS?
List FOUR reasons why living things need carbon.
What are PROTEINS, LIPIDS, CARBOHYDRATE, DNA (NUCLEIC ACIDS)?
How does carbon enter the geosphere?
What are decomposition and waste?
Plants release excess water as a vapor through small pores on the surface of their leaves.
What is TRANSPIRATION?
Percent of air that is nitrogen?
What is 78%?
What is phosphorous useful for?
What are DNA, ATP, RNA, BONES, TEETH and plantgrowth?
Name of compound that nitrogen fixing bacteria in root nodules change atmospheric nitrogen into.
What is AMMONIA (NH4)?
FOrm of carbon that dead organisms can be turned into given enough time, heat, and pressure.
What are FOSSIL FUELS?
Water vapor changes back into a liquid as the upper atmosphere cools.
What is CONDENSATION?
How does nitrogen enter the biosphere?
What is Nitrogen fixation?
Two processes that cause phosphorus to be released from rock.
What is WEATHERING & EROSION?
What are two ways carbon enters the hydrosphere?
What is ocean/atmospheric exchange, cellular respiration, runoff, weathering,
Name of chemical process used by consumers, plants, & decomposers where carbon from food is broken down to form energy and carbon is released back into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.
What is CELLULAR RESPIRATION?
Precipitation that drains into surface bodies of water.
What is RUNOFF?
Type of plants that have nitrogen fixing bacteria in their roots and name of structures that the bacteria live in.
What are LEGUMES and ROOT NODULES?
How do humans contribute to excess phosphorous?
What is FERTILIZER RUN-OFF, ANIMAL WASTE RUN-OFF, & RUN-OFF FROM SEWAGE TREATMENT?
The difference between run off and inflitration
Infiltration is when water seeps through the soil. Runoff is when water runs over the surface of th earth.
How does carbon contribute to global warming?
CO2 is a greenhouse gas. Th more greenhouse gases we have in the atmosphere the more heat is trapped close to the surface of earth which causes an increase in average global temperatures.
Precipitation that seeps (drips/percolates) down through the soil into ground water.
What is INFILTRATION?
Process where bacteria change nitrogen compounds back into atmospheric nitrogen.
What is DENITRIFICATION?
Environmental problem causing blooms of algae that quickly die, decompose, & deplete water of oxygen.
What is EUTROPHICATION?
Scientific law that states that matter is not created or destroyed in a chemical reaction, it simply changes form.
What is the LAW OF CONSERVATION OF MASS?