Nitrogen Cycle
The amount of Nitrogen found in the atmosphere.
What is 78%
What process do plants use to take in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?
What is photosynthesis?
The term for water turning into vapor and rising into the atmosphere?
What is evaporation?
Animals breathe this in and plants release it.
What is oxygen?
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
After plants die this happens to the N.
What is decomposition?
How does carbon dioxide return to the atmosphere from animals?
What is respiration?
The process when water vapor cools and forms clouds
What is condensation?
Plants soak this in and animals release it through respiration.
What is CO2?
The way matter differs from energy in ecosystems?
What is matter is recycled while energy flows in one direction?
The process by which nitrogen gas in the atmosphere is converted into a form that plants can use
What is Nitrogen fixation
Three different types of fossil fuels.
What are coal, oil, and natural gas?
The definition of precipitation
What is water falling back to Earth in forms like rain, snow, or sleet?
The process that plants use to convert CO2 and H2O into glucose and oxygen.
What is photosynthesis?
Give an example of how matter is transferred between living organisms and the environment.
What is the transfer of carbon from plants to animals through the food chain?
This changes nitrogen in the soil back into nitrogen gas
What is denitrifying bacteria?
This is the way that carbon in grass would end up in an eagle.
What is an eagle's food chain?
The process by which plants release water through the stomata on their leaves
What is transpiration?
The process that changes O2 and glucose into CO2, H2O, and ATP.
What is cellular respiration?
The role do decomposers play in the transfer of matter.
What is breaking down dead organic material and returning nutrients to the soil?
Name two different things that can be responsible for converting atmospheric nitrogen into usable forms for plants.
What are lightning and nitrogen fixing bacteria?
Burning fossil fuels (combustion) has this effect on the carbon cycle.
What is adding CO2 to the atmosphere?
Another name for the water cycle.
What is the hydrologic cycle?
The left side of an equation contains the _________ and the right of an equation contains the ________.
What is the reactants and products?
Another name for living or once living things in an environment and a name for non-living things.
What is biotic and abiotic?