The Water Cycle
the change of a substance from a liquid to a gas
What is evaporation?
the movement of water between the oceans, atmosphere, land, and living things
What is the water cycle?
the exchange of carbon between the environment and living things
What is the carbon cycle?
the change of state from a gas to a liquid
What is condensation?
the precipitation that seeps into the ground and is stores in spaces between rocks
What is groundwater?
How is the greenhouse effect and global warming related?
What is excess greenhouse gases in the atmosphere causes the global warming?
any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface from the clouds
What is precipitation?
Bacteria in the soil convert the ammonia into ____________.
What are nitrites?
The way that humans obtain nitrogen.
What is eating plants OR eating animals that eat plants?
When gases, like carbon dioxide, get trapped in the atmosphere and cause the temperature to increase.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
the precipitation that falls on land and flows into streams, rivers, and lakes
What is runoff?
the breakdown of substances into simpler molecular substances
What is decomposition?
Different bacteria in the soil convert nitrites to ___________, which the plant can use.
What are nitrates?
Why do humans need nitrogen?
What is DNA and protein.
What is the main function of carbohydrates, lipids, and protein?
What is carbohydrates is for long term energy, lipids is for storage of energy,and protein is for building muscle.
the evaporation of water from the leaves of a plant
What is transpiration?
The 3 processes that release carbon dioxide in the carbon cycle.
What are respiration, combustion, and decomposition?
the process by which bacteria in the soil change nitrogen gas into forms that plants can use
What is nitrogen fixation OR nitrification?
Describe the nitrogen cycle.
What is nitrogen is in the atmosphere as a gas, it must go through nitrogen fixation, the plants accept it through the roots, the animal eats the plant, then the animal poops, or dies which returns nitrogen back to the soil.
What process converts carbon into food?
What is the process of photosynthesis?