Carbon
The scientific word for eating.
What is consumption?
Water leaves the atmosphere, mostly, through the process of evaporation. Is this statement true or false?
What is true?
How do animals return nitrogen to the soil?
What is the process of decomposition?
How many spheres are there?
What is four?
The four main biogeochemical cycles are?
What is hydrologic, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen?
How does the human body return carbon to the atmosphere?
What is cellular respiration?
The process in which water falls down to Earth.
What is precipitation?
What molecules do plants produce using nitrogen?
What is chlorophyll?
All parts of Earth where life exists.
What is the Biosphere?
Any substance that cannot be broken down into simpler substances.
What is an element?
The breaking down of rocks, soils, and minerals through contact.
What is weathering?
The process in which plants loose water through their leaves.
What is transpiration?
Lightning and bacteria are the only things involved with this process.
What is the Nitrogen Fixation?
Wind is part of what sphere?
What is atmosphere?
Any of the natural cycles that elements go through to be recycled.
What is a biogeochemical cycle?
The place where carbon is stored for an extended period of time.
What is a carbon sink?
Water movement within the soil.
What is percolation?
Nitrogen converted to ammonium or ammonia by bacteria.
What is ammonification?
A volcano is apart of what sphere?
What is the geosphere?
Unlike land animals, fish breathe hydrogen and not oxygen. Is this statement true or false?
What is false?
When a fire returns carbon to the soil, or a volcano sends carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
What is natural combustion?
What percentage of Earth's water is fresh water?
What is 3%?
In which form is nitrogen taken up by non-legume plants?
What is ammonium and nitrates?
A thunderstorm is a connection between what two spheres?
What is atomosphere-hydrosphere?
More than 80% of the Earth's added heat is stored in the ocean. Is this statement true or false?
What is True?