earth
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Hydrosphere
Vocab
Nitrogen Cycle
100
Geosphere consistes of the rock and minerals on the Earths surface and below it.
What is geosphere?
100
The crust and the upper layer of the mantle together made up a zone of rigid and brittle rock.
What is Lithosphere?
100
The process by which water becomes water vapor.
What is evaporation
100
The layer of earth below the mantle
What is Core
100
the atmosphere
where is most of the nitrogen on earth located
200
Thecrust is a thin layer of cool rock that forms on the Earths outer skin both on dry land in the ocean.
What is the crust?
200
Divergent, Transform, and Convergent.
What are the three tectonic plates?
200
rain or snow
What is precipitation
200
The thin layer of rock that forms earths outer surface on land and in the ocean.
What is Crust
200
legumes
What crop increases the amount of usable nitrogen in soil
300
Dense.
The inner core is a _ ball of solid metal.
300
When the magma pushes upward to the surface and pushes plates apart forming new crust.
What is divergent?
300
the place where fresh water collects underground
What is aquifer
300
An organism that relies on other organisms for engery and nutrients.
What is consumer
300
create natural nitrogen
The Haber-Bosch process enabled people to
400
Core.
What is below the mantle?
400
When to plates collide and slide past eachother.
What is Transform
400
the process by which water vapor in the air becomes dew.
What is condensation
400
all of the rock at and below earths surface
What is geosphere
400
By fixation by lighting and biological Fixation
Two ways nitrogen can be fixed naturally for plant use
500
Molten, iron, and nickel.
What is the outer core made of?
500
When to plates move towards eachother and collide.
What is Convergent
500
the process by which blades of grass release water vapor
What is transpiration
500
a mountain, island, or continent formed by the collision and separations of tectonic plates.
What is landform
500
denitrifying bacteria convert nitrate and nitrate ions to atmospheic nitrogen
What happenes to nitrogen during the process of denitrification
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