Water Cycle
This process involves the conversion of liquid water into vapor.
What is evaporation
The equation represents this process but is missing something.
6 CO2 + 6 H2 O --> C6H12O6 + 6O2
The name of this process.
What is photosynthesis? and what is sunlight?
The process of converting atmospheric nitrogen (N2) into ammonia (NH3) by certain bacteria or lightning.
What is nitrogen fixation?
A geological process that moves rocks from oceans onto land
What is uplift?
Plants take in carbon dioxide (CO2) by absorbing this, connecting these two cycles.
What is water? (H2O)
Connects carbon cycle and water cycle
The process by which water vapor cools and changes back into liquid water, forming clouds.
What is condensation?
Organisms responsible for converting carbon dioxide into organic compounds during photosynthesis
What are plants?
This type of bacteria converts ammonia into nitrites and nitrates in the soil.
What are nitrifying bacteria?
How plants acquire phosphorus from the soil
What is through their roots?
These organisms break down organic material, recycling carbon and nitrogen back into the ecosystem.
Decomposers
The term for the movement of water from the surface of the Earth into the atmosphere and back again.
What is the water cycle?
The process through which carbon is released back into the atmosphere by living organisms.
What is cellular respiration?
The process by which nitrates are converted back into nitrogen gas (N2), returning nitrogen to the atmosphere.
What is denitrification?
This process releases phosphorus into the soil and water
What is weathering and erosion?
Water washes this element into rivers and lakes due to an excess use of fertilizer.
What is phosphorus?
Combines water cycle and phosphorus cycle.
The process by which water evaporates from the leaves of plants and exits through the stomata.
What is transpiration?
Process that occurs to dead animals and plants under specific conditions like pressure.
What is fossilization
These host nitrogen-fixing bacteria in their root nodules, enriching the soil with ammonia.
What are legumes?
Phosphorus is considered this type of factor because it is often in low supply, limiting plant growth and productivity.
What is a limiting factor?
The burning of this increases carbon dioxide levels which in turn influences nitrogen uptake and availability.
What are fossil fuels?
Relationship between carbon and nitrogen cycles.
Water moves through soil layers back to lakes and oceans similar to how water moves in a hydrothermal vent.
What is percolation?
This results from the combustion of fossil fuels, which releases large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
What is climate change?
This is the process by which organic nitrogen from dead organisms or waste is converted into ammonia, making nitrogen available for plant uptake.
What is ammonification?
What is an algal bloom?
This process removes trees which leads to increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and reduced nitrogen fixation by plants, disrupting both the carbon and nitrogen cycle.
What is deforestation?