___________ and other photosynthetic organisms take in carbon dioxide from the air.
a. plants
b. animals
plants (remember the demonstration with the balloons? The animal ate the plant to get the carbon). The animals need plants to recieve carbon.
100
The air is 78% what element?
a. Carbon
b. Nitrogen
c. Oxygen
Nitrogen
100
This word describes the changing of a gas into a liquid.
Condensation
100
This Chicago Blackhawks player is the captain of the team and wears #19. (Mrs. Rogers's FAVORITE PLAYER!)
Jonothan Toews (of course!)
200
Heat causes water to rise from earth's surface as a gas through this process...
Evaporation
200
When an animal uses up carbon, how does it leave their body?
they breathe it out (respiration)
200
Nitrogen-fixing bacteria in soil turns nitrogen gas into what?
a. water
b. ammonia
c. oxygen
d. carbon
Ammonia
200
Explain the difference between groundwater and watershed.
a. stored in tiny holes, or pores, in soil or rocks.
b. an area from which water is drained.
groundwater is "a"
watershed is "b"
200
This team represents the South Side of Chicago. Take me out to the ball game...
The Chicago White Sox
300
When water condenses in the atmosphere and falls as snow, rain, sleet or hail.
Precipitation
300
What do decomposers do?
they break down decaying or dead plants and animals (and return carbondioxide to the air)
300
Soil bacteria change the ammonia into nitrates so that __________ can absorb and use them.
a. worms
b. garbage that is decomposing (cans, plastic)
c. plants
Plants
300
This word is used to describe an area from which water is drained. It is an area of land.
runoff groundwater watershed
watershed
300
This is the name of the College that Ms. Rogers attended (accross the Mississippi River).
The University of Iowa
400
Precipitation can move into oceans and over the ground. This is called what?
runoff
400
How do animals use carbon? (Where do they get it from?)
a. breathe it in from the air
b. eat cookies
c. eat plants
c. eat plants
400
During the nitrogen cycle, there is a continuous trapping of _________________ into compounds in soil. Then it is returned to the atmosphere.
a. carbon
b. nitrogen gas
c. ammonia
d. bacteria
nitrogen gas
400
This cycle describes the continuous exchange of carbon among living things.
The Carbon Cycle
400
This artist has had many hit songs in the past few years, including "Tim McGraw" and "Mine." She has topped both the Pop and Country charts in music.
Taylor Swift
500
This is beneath Earth's surface, in soil or laters of rock called aquifers.
groundwater
500
Does carbon make a complete cycle? yes or no?
Does energy (in The Carbon Cycle) make a complete cycle? yes or no?
YES!!!
NO!!!
500
Explain one way that nitrogen can be fixed in the nitrogen cycle.
Lightning, volcanic activity, OR nitrogen-fixing bacteria
500
CO2 stands for what?
Carbon
500
It was a shame we lost on Sunday to the Packers! Unfortunately they will be playing in the superbowl against this team.