Earth's Carbon Cycle
Methane is found here
What is the Atmosphere?
Nitrogen is a critic of these organic compounds
What are proteins and DNA?
Helps living things by absorbing harmful UV radiation
What is ozone?
These four reservoirs in the Earth system
What is lithosphere, Atmosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere?
The Earth's element cycle moves this element through the atmosphere, oceans, soil, and living organisms. Plants absorb it, animals eat plants, and decomposers return it to the soil and air. Fossil fuels store and release it when burned. Oceans absorb it, supporting marine life and sediments. This cycle regulates climate and sustains life by balancing this key element.
What is the Carbon cycle
Carbon location on the periodic chart
What is number 6?
first practical process to convert atmospheric nitrogen gas into ammonia, later found to be harmful to the environment
What is The Haber-Bosch Process?
Process of changing CO2 That is exhaled by living things to make oxygen
What is Photosynthesis?
Ash from a forest fire is carried by the wind to a forest where it lands and causes the pH of the soil to increase
What is Atmosphere-Lithosphere?
The Earth's atmosphere is balanced by a cycle where plants and algae release a crucial gas through photosynthesis, and animals, plants, and microbes consume it during respiration. Geological activities like weathering and volcanic eruptions also contribute to this cycle, ensuring the gas's continuous replenishment and balance.
What is oxygen cycle?
Sea creatures build these using carbonate ions
What are shells?
this form of nitrogen is used in fertilizer
What is nitrates?
A location in which atoms of an element are held for a long period of time
What is a reservoir?
Extra fertilizer in water can cause algae to reproduce and bloom out of control
What is Hydrosphere-Biosphere?
The Earth's cycle of a crucial element begins with bacteria converting atmospheric gas into forms usable by plants. Plants absorb it, and animals get it by eating plants or other animals. When they die, decomposers return it to the soil. Some of it goes back to the atmosphere through denitrification, keeping the ecosystem balanced.
What is the nitrogen cycle?
Process changes dead organisms into fossil fuels
What is decomposition?
Microorganisms--simple, living organisms that we can not see with the naked eye--are critical to the nitrogen cycle.
What is bacteria?
Helps living things release energy from food
What is Oxygen?
composed of: components, a boundary and flows.
What is a system?
The cycle that contains photosynthesis
What is the Carbon cycle?
Seashells and other carbonate based materials end up as sediment which can eventually turn into this sedimentary rock
What is limestone?
converting ammonia and nitrates in soil back to free atmospheric nitrogen. This nitrogen returns to the air, completing the nitrogen cycle.
what is Denitrification?
Areas, also known as "dead zones", in oceans and lakes
What is hypoxic?
studying the core of Earth
What is lithosphere?
The cycle that contains resperation
What is the oxygen cycle?