The Water Cycle
When water vapor is cooled in the atmosphere and becomes water, what is it called?
Condensation
The gas form of Carbon that is used in the Carbon Cycles is what?
Carbon Dioxide
What state of Matter is Free Nitrogen in?
A Gas
What is Evaporation?
The change from a liquid to a gas
How do consumers get Nitrogen?
They eat plants
To go from the ocean to rain, what three steps of the water cycle need to happen?
Evaporation, condensation, precipitation
When producers take in Carbon Dioxide, what happens to the Carbon?
It is used to make Glucose.
Why is Nitrogen necessary for life?
It is a component of Proteins
What is a decomposer?
An Organism that gets it's energy from breaking down dead organisms and returning their nutrients to the environment
What type of plants do microbes attach to the roots of?
Legumes
Where does the energy for the water cycle come from?
The Sun
What process takes the Glucose and turns it back into Carbon Dioxide in a consumer?
Cellular Respiration
What percentage of our atmosphere is made of Nitrogen
78%
What is the foundation for all life on earth?
Carbon
How are humans disrupting the Carbon Cycle?
Burning Fossil Fuels
What are the pores in the leaves of a plant called?
Stomata
Why are decomposers necessary to the Carbon Cycle?
What are the two ways Nitrogen Fixation can happen?
Bacteria and High Energy events
What is transpiration?
When water vapor evaporates from plants through their Stomata
What is the process of turning free nitrogen into a useable form for plants?
Nitrogen Fixation
In order to become groundwater, what must happen to the precipitation?
Infiltration
What are the three fossil fuels AND where do each come from?
Coal, from plants, oil, from animals, and Natural Gas, from animals as well
How are Nitrates formed?
Lightning splits apart Nitrogen bonds, and the loose nitrogen bonds with Oxygen, falling with the rain
What element is necessary for life?
Nitrogen
What is Mr. Fulton's favorite Pokemon?
Arcanine