Chemistry Review
Earth's Spheres
Tectonic Plates/Interacting Systems
Hydrologic & Carbon Cycles
Nitrogen & Phosphorus Cycles
100
These are the basic units of matter.
What are atoms?
100
This sphere consists of the layers of gases surrounding our planet.
What is the atmosphere?
100
This type of feedback loop drives a system toward an extreme.
What is a positive feedback loop?
100
Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere helps trap solar radiation in a process called the ________ effect.
What is greenhouse?
100
This is an example of an organic macromolecule that contains nitrogen and is critical for organisms to function.
What is a protein or a nucleic acid?
200
Made up of two hydrogens and a single oxygen, these molecules are known as the universal solvent.
What is water?
200
This sphere includes (among others) oceans, polar ice caps, and ground water.
What is the hydrosphere?
200
This type of plate movement is that which is seen in California at the San Andreas fault - two plates slide past one another.
What are transform boundaries?
200
In photosynthesis, carbon goes from this inorganic form to this organic form.
What are carbon dioxide & glucose?
200
These are the types of plants that contain symbiotic root bacteria responsible for fixing nitrogen.
What are legumes?
300
Named for their large size, this category of compounds includes lipids, carbohydrates, proteins, and nucleic acids.
What are macromolecules?
300
This sphere involves all the living and once-living organisms and nonliving parts of the environment with which they react.
What is the biosphere?
300
This type of tectonic plate movement results in mountain and volcano formation.
What is convergent?
300
This is the reason for why, although water covers 70% of our planet, water shortages and conflicts over water can occur.
What is that there is only a tiny amount of liquid, fresh water?
300
This is the term for the process by which nitrogen gas is converted to ammonia.
What is (nitrogen) fixation?
400
These are polymers made of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.
What are carbohydrates?
400
This sphere is made up of all the rock above and below the Earth's surface.
What is the geosphere?
400
This type of plate movement results in formations like the mid-Atlantic ridge, a result of seafloor spreading.
What is divergent?
400
These are underground features that hold freshwater; can be drilled into to form a well.
What are aquifers?
400
The phosphorus cycle does not contain a component in this sphere.
What is the atmosphere?
500
These are compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon.
What are hydrocarbons?
500
The lithosphere is carried on a softer layer of rock called this
What is the asthenosphere?
500
Nutrients circulate endlessly throughout the environment in complex cycles called this.
What are biogeochemical cycles?
500
This is the term for water entering the atmosphere by release of water vapor from plant leaves.
What is transpiration?
500
This is the process by which humans and other animals obtain nitrogen and phosphorus, so important for cellular processes.
What is through food / the food chain?
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