Nitrogen
When It Rains It Pours
CO2
Potpourri
Legumes
100

This type of bacteria take nitrates and free the nitrogen into the atmosphere.

What are denitrifying bacteria?

100

Snow, Rain, and sleet are all this type of event.

What is Precipitation?

100

Plants use CO2, water and sunlight to power this process.

What is photosynthesis?

100
The zone of all life on Earth is called by this name.

What is Biosphere?

100

This is the name of the processes which take Nitrogen from the atmosphere and combine it with other chemicals to make soil nutrients for plant growth.

What is "fixing Nitrogen"?

200

This is the percentage of nitrogen in the atmosphere.

What is 78%?

200
When rains wash across farmlands into rivers, agricultural pesticides will enter the rivers because of this process.

What is Runoff?

200

They breath in CO2.

What are plants?

200

This type of Legume is eaten in ballparks.

What are Peanuts.

200

This type of Legume is eaten in ballparks.

What are Peanuts.

300

The  soil nutrient Nitrate is made from this material and Oxygen by bacteria.

What is Nitrite?

300

This is the part of the Biosphere which contains water.

What is the Hydrosphere?

300

.04 percent.

What percentage of the atmosphere is CO2?

300

This is the process by which water vapor escapes into the atmosphere from the surface of a body of water.

What is Evaporation?

300

Legumes are important because they store this chemical in their "pod wherehouses".

What are Nitrates?

400

This bacteria fixes Nitrogen directly and stores it in the plant.

What is Rhizobia?

400

Scene most commonly in Dry Ice, this is the name of the process by which a solid goes directly into gaseous form without becoming liquid as an intermediary step.

What is Sublimation?

400

Burning this will release CO2 into the atmosphere.

What are Fossil Fuels?

400

This process turns the amino acids in decaying organic material in the soil into Ammonium.

What is Ammonification?

400

This bacteria fixes Nitrogen directly and stores it in the plant.

What is Rhizobia?

500

This type of bacteria release Nitrogen from the soil back into the atmosphere.

What is denitrifying bacteria?

500

This is the process whereby the moisture in plant breath is released into the atmosphere.

What is Transpiration?

500

If global temperatures increase, this condition will release large amount of CO2 into the atmosphere.

What is the melting of the ice cap/glaciers?

500

These three cycles are the main way matter is recycled on the Earth.

What are the Water, CO2, and Nitrogen Cycles.

500

In this era, legumes contributed to the prosperity of England.

What is the Agricultural Revolution.

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