Day 1 - Nitrogen
The name of the bacteria that converts nitrogen into ammonia
What is rhizobium?
The conversion of liquid to gas
What is evaporation?
The purpose of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
What is to hold heat?
The absorption of nutrients
What is assimilation?
The organism responsible for putting nitrogen back into the ecosystem after something dies
What are decomposers/fungi?
The importance of plants in the rainforest
The way carbon is used by plants
What is photosynthesis?
The process of turning food into energy
What is respiration?
An adaptation that is naturally on an organisms body
What is a structural adaptation?
The step of the nitrogen cycle that turns ammonia into nitrate
What is nitrification?
The way that aquifers refill
What is precipitation?
The role decomposers play in the carbon cycle
What is bring carbon back into the system?
The process of turning nitrate into nitrogen gas
The name of the ship that Charles Darwin rode on
What is the HMS Beagle?
The consequences of having too much nitrogen in a water ecosystem
What are dead zones?
The importance of aquifers
What is to hold fresh, drinkable, water?
The name of the organism that makes its own energy?
What is an autotroph? / What is a producer?
The process of turning dead organic material into ammonia?
What is ammonification?
The new tattoo that Mr. MA has
What is the sun?
The reason why humans need nitrogen in their system?
What is to make DNA?
The human action that causes some counties in Pennsylvania to have contaminated, flammable water
What is fracking?
The consequence of having too much carbon in the atmosphere
What is too much heat? / What is melting the ice caps? / What is climate change? / What is global warming?
The enlargement of a legume root that houses the rhizobium (must be pronounced correctly)
What is the nodule?
The way that the nitrogen and water cycle are negatively connected because of humans.
What is eutrophication?