WATER CYCLE
CELL PROCESSES
CARBON CYCLE
NITROGEN CYCLE
MISC.
100
Any form of water that falls to the ground from clouds.
What is precipitation?
100
The process by which plants, algae, and some bacteria make their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
100
The burning of a substance.
What is combustion?
100
One of two forms of nitrogen fixation.
What is lightning or bacteria in the soil?
100
A triangular diagram that shows an ecosystem's loss of energy, which results as energy passes through the ecosystem's food chain.
What is an energy pyramid?
200
When water cools from a vapor to liquid to form clouds.
What is condensation?
200
The process by which organisms use oxygen to create energy from food.
What is cellular respiration?
200
The breakdown of a substance into a simpler substance.
What is decomposition?
200
Where humans and animals get their nitrogen.
What is from the food they eat?
200
An increase in the average temperature of earth's surface.
What is global warming?
300
When water is heated up by the sun and turns into a vapor.
What is evaporation?
300
Another name for producer.
What is an autotroph?
300
Burning of these, releases carbon back into the atmosphere.
What is fossil fuels?
300
Nitrogen from organisms is returned to the soil through this process.
What is decomposition?
300
An organism that produces it's own food.
What is a producer or autotroph?
400
When plants release water vapor into the air through stomata in their leaves.
What is transpiration?
400
Another name for a consumer.
What is heterotroph?
400
Molecules that contain carbon.
What are organic molecules?
400
The movement of nitrogen through the environment and living things.
What is the nitrogen cycle?
400
The place in which an organism fills in an ecosystem.
What is niche?
500
Water found trapped between rocks and layers of dirt underground.
What is groundwater?
500
Energy produced during cellular respiration.
What is A.T.P.?
500
The basis of the carbon cycle.
What is photosynthesis?
500
This has to happen before plants and animals can get the nitrogen that they need.
What is nitrogen fixation?
500
The order of organism classification from largest to smallest?
What is domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species?
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