This occurs when water evaporates into the atmosphere, combines with dust particles in the air and forms clouds.
What is condensation?
100
Where is oxygen generated (made)?
What is plants in the process of photosynthesis?
100
What type of plants are involved in nitrogen fixation?
What are legumes (i.e. soybeans, alfalfa, peas, and clover)?
100
In what form (solid, liquid or gas) is phosphorus?
What is a solid?
100
What is the difference between macronutrients and micronutrients?
What is macronutrients (Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Phosphorus) are used in large amounts and micronutrients (iodine, iron, zinc) are used in small amounts?
200
Give 3 examples of precipitation?
What is rain, snow, sleet, freezing rain, hail?
200
This is the most common element in the human body that makes up 65% of the mass of the human body.
What is oxygen?
200
Nitrogen fixing bacteria (found on the roots of legume plants), fix nitrogen into the soil into this compound?
What is ammonia (NH3)?
200
Provide two examples of why phosphorus is so important?
What is What are ATP, NADP (i.e. photosynthesis), sugar-phosphate backbone of nucleic acids (DNA), and phospholipids (i.e. cell membrane).
200
How does carbon go from a primary producer to a consumer?
What is the consumer eats the plants?
300
The process by which plants "sweat," water evaporates from their leaves and goes into the atmosphere?
What is transpiration?
300
What are two processes that use oxygen?
What is respiration (breathing), decomposing, rusting, and combustion?
300
Describe how nitrogen gets into the secondary consumers (carnivores).
What is the plants get the nitrogen from the soil and then the herbivores eat the plants, then the carnivores eat the herbivores (so the nitrogen travels each time)?
300
What is the process called by which phosphorus comes from a rock and describe how it works?
What is erosion and a process by which water wears down rocks and releases the phosphorus?
300
Where is Earth's largest reservoir of carbon?
What is the atmosphere?
400
This is formed when water seeps into the ground and goes below the water table (i.e. a pool of water underground).
What is an aquifer?
400
How do fish breathe underwater?
What is they pull out of the dissolved oxygen in the water?
400
Nitrogen is essential to life because it is a key part of which two molecules.
What is amino acids and nucleic acids?
400
The phosphorus that is carried by rivers and streams and runsoff into the oceans is found primarily in ...
What is marine sediment?
400
What two things are responsible for turning carbon containing organic matter into fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas?
What is high pressure and temperatures?
500
What causes water to evaporate from the oceans, lakes, and rivers?
What is solar radiation (i.e. the sun)?
500
Explain how oxygen cycles through the earth starting with a plant?
What is a by product of photosynthesis is oxygen, which is used by animals to breath (respiration) and the process of respiration sends out carbon dioxide which is needed to do photosynhesis that makes oxygen?
500
Explain denitrification and who are the key players.
What is the process by which nitrates in the soil are broken down and nitrogen is released back into the atmosphere. This process is completed by bacteria, fungi and other organisms in the soil.
500
In order for phosphorus to leave the ocean, this must occur?
What is geological up-thrust?
500
Name two ways that carbon is released back into the atmosphere.
What is cellular respiration (i.e. plants and animals), burning fossil fuels, burning of wood/plants during forest fires, and dissolving of limestone by water?