Carbon Part 1
This is when the pH of the ocean decreases because of excess carbon absorbed.
What is ocean acidification?
This plant process takes in carbon dioxide.
What is photosynthesis?
True or false: Humans can use nitrogen for their DNA by breathing it in the air.
False
This is why humans need phosphorus.
What is DNA, teeth, and bones?
The definition of combustion
What is the burning of fossil fuels?
This process in animals and plants takes in oxygen and releases carbon dioxide.
What is cellular respiration?
This is the chemical formula for nitrites.
What is NO2?
True or false: Phosphorus can be found cycling through the atmosphere
False
This is a natural way that carbon is released from the geosphere to the atmosphere
What are volcanic eruptions?
This is how carbon moves from the biosphere to the geosphere.
What is decomposition?
This is the definition of nitrogen fixation.
What is the process of converting atmospheric nitrogen to a nitrogen compound in the soil?
True or false: Phosphorus can be found in rocks
True
This is the percent of the human body that consists of carbon.
What is 18%
This part of the biosphere sequesters carbon.
What are plants?
The chemical formula N2 represents this kind of nitrogen
What is atmospheric nitrogen?
This is a major human source of excess nitrogen and phosphorus in the environment
What is fertilizer?
This source of carbon used daily by humans takes millions of years to form.
What are fossil fuels?
This process in the geosphere sequesters carbon.
What is mountain forming?
This is the chemical formula for nitrate.
What is NO3?
This term describes excess nutrients (such as nitrogen and phosphorus) in the water, leading to harmful algal blooms.
What is eutrophication?