Cycles
Carbon Cycle
Global Warming
Water Cycle
Nitrogen Cycle
100
Anything that has mass and takes up space is called ______________.
What is MATTER?
100
Name of the carbon compound that PRODUCERS remove from the atmosphere.
What is CARBON DIOXIDE?
100
What has happened to Lake Chad as a result of global warming and unsustainable irrigation?
What is the lake is reduced to 1/20th of its size in 40 years?
100
What two things power the water cycle?
What are the sun and gravity?
100
Name two items that nitrogen is an essential component of?
What are proteins, muscles, amino acids, enzymes, DNA, skin...?
200
Does matter flow in one direction through the ecosystem or does it continually cycle?
What is CYCLES?
200
How consumers obtain their carbon.
What is EAT PRODUCERS OR EAT ANIMALS THAT ATE PRODUCERS?
200
What will need to happen to the human population to improve global warming?
What is STABILIZE THE HUMAN POPULATION?
200
Name the process by which the sun's energy changes liquid water in rivers, lakes, streams, & oceans into a gas.
What is evaporation?
200
What percentage of the atmosphere is nitrogen?
What is seventy-eight percent?
300
List four items that matter travels or cycles through in the ecosystem.
What are living things, water, rock, soil, and air?
300
What process do producers undergo that takes water, sunlight, and a carbon compound and changes these reactants into glucose and oxygen.
What is PHOTOSYNTHESIS?
300
For each item, describe the effect that global warming is having on the item: glaciers, hurricanes, and forest fires.
What is MELT, GREATER # & GREATER INTENSITY, & GREATER # & GREATER INTENSITY?
300
Name of the process by which water returns to the earth as rain, snow, sleet, hail, or fog.
What is PRECIPITATION?
300
Is atmospheric nitrogen a usable form by most plants and animal?
What is NO.
400
Nam of the state of matter that phosphorus rarely occurs as.
What is a GAS?
400
Name of the carbon based gas that organisms release when they break down the carbon compound, glucose, to obtain energy.
What is CARBON DIOXIDE?
400
List two greenhouse gases.
What are carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, and nitrogen oxide?
400
Name the process by which water vapor - a gas, cools as it reaches the upper atmosphere and changes back into a liquid.
What is CONDENSATION?
400
Name of weather process that will naturally fix nitrogen?
What is LIGHTNING?
500
Name of the scientific law that states that matter is NOT created nor destroyed during a chemical reaction, it merely changes form.
What is THE LAW OF CONSERVATION OF MASS?
500
Name of the process in which organisms take in the carbon compound glucose and oxygen and release a carbon based gas, water, and energy.
What is CELLULAR RESPIRATION?
500
List FIVE possible consequences of global warming.
What are rising sea levels, droughts, floods, famines, heat stress, disease, fires, severe weather, & loss of biodiversity?
500
Name the process by which plants assimilate water through the roots to deliver nutrients to the leaves and then releases this extra water as a vapor.
What is TRANSPIRATION?
500
Nitrogen has to be fixed to become usable. List one of two possible atoms that may be added to nitrogen to fix it.
What is Hydrogen or Oxygen.
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