Carbon cycle
Carbon combined with oxygen produces this
What is carbon dioxide?
When humans burn fossil fuels carbon enters the atmosphere in this form.
What is carbon dioxide?
In 2012 England had a record-wet summer, while the U.S. had drought conditions
What is weather?
All of Earth’s water (Hint: Biosphere)
What is hydrosphere?
An important element for life on Earth
What is carbon?
Some carbon from decomposing organisms and decomposers ends up in the
What is soil?
A set of conditions in one place at one time.
What is weather?
The basis of the carbon cycle when plants capture energy from the sun and change it into food.
What is photosynthesis?
Plants get carbon dioxide from this.
What is air?
Built of sugars that they make through photosynthesis using CO2 and H2O.
What are plants?
The conditions over a longer period of time.
What is climate?
The rocky outer layer of the Earth. (Hint: Biosphere)
What is the geosphere/lithosphere?
Carbon atoms moving from one thing to another
What is carbon cycle?
The gases surrounding the Earth
What is the atmosphere?
The amount of precipitation measured over the course of a year
What is climate
When nitrogen is converted to NH4
What is nitrogen fixation?
Places where carbon is stored
What is reservoir?
The parts of the land, sea, and atmosphere in which life exists
What is the biosphere?
This causes sea levels to rise
What are melting glaciers?
Ancient
What is paleo?