Water Cycle
Nitrogen Cycle
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Phosphorus Cycle
Carbon Cycle
100
Water falling to the earth from condensed clouds is known as what?
What is precipitation.
100
What is wrong with atmospheric nitrogen?
What is "we can't use it".
100

What do you call a cycle that passes nutrients from biotic factors to abiotic factors?  

What is "biogeochemical cycle" 

100
The majority of the phosphorus in the world is stored in what?
What is rocks.
100
Which biological process do plants use to take in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and get energy?
What is photosynthesis.
200

the process of water seeping into the ground 

What is percolation.

200

Who "fixes" the nitrogen into a form that we can use?

What is bacteria 

200

What biogeochemical cycles have both a long term cycle and a short term cycle?

What is carbon cycle and phosphorous cycle.

200

Describe the steps of the short term phosphorus cycle  

What are "absorbed into plants, consumed by animals, released back into environment through death, pooping, and urination, broken down by decomposers, returned to soil".    

200

Name a way that carbon is released into the atmosphere using biological processes?

What is cellular respiration.

300
How does ocean/lake water return to the atmosphere?
What is evaporation.
300
Animals get most of the nitrogen they need by what?
What is "consuming plants or other animals that have the nitrogen".
300

What are the levels of organization (in order from smallest to largest) 

Organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere 

300
What must happen to the rock in order for plants to absorb the phosphorus within them?
What is break down into soil.
300
Humans have contributed more carbon to the carbon cycle by doing what?
What is burning fossil fuels.
400
Which process within the water cycle is considered "biological"?
What is transpiration.
400

Bacteria turning nitrogen into usable nitrogen 

What is "Nitrogen Fixation" 

400

A symbiotic relationship when both organisms benefit 

What is mutualism 

400
Herbivores and carnivores obtain phosphorus by doing what?
What is "consuming plants and/or animals that have phosphorus".
400
How do herbivores and carnivores get the carbon that they need?
What is "by consuming plants and/or animals that have carbon".
500
What is "transpiration"?
What is "when leaves release water through their underside to evaporate".
500

Nitrogen is used in the body to make what?

What are proteins.

500

Energy travels in a _________________ manner

What is Unidirectional 

500

Phosphorus is returned to the rock cycle from plants and animals by what?

What is "hardening into solid phosphate after being sediment".

500
Organic matter that has been trapped underground for a long time and turned into a fuel  

What are "fossil fuels" 

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