Vocabulary
Carbon Cycle
Nitrogen Cycle
Phosphorus Cycle
Water cycle
100

An animal that feeds on plants

What is Herbivore
100

Which biological process do plants use to take in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and get energy?

What is photosynthesis

100

What is wrong with atmospheric nitrogen?

What is "we can't use it"

100

The majority of the phosphorus in the world is stored in what?

What is rocks

100

Water falling to the earth from condensed clouds is known as what?

What is precipitation

200

Organism that breaks down dead organic material

What is Decomposers

200

Name two ways that carbon is released into the atmosphere using biological processes?

What is cellular respiration and decomposition

200

Who "fixes" the nitrogen into a form that we can use?

What is bacteria (either in the soil or in the roots of legumes)

200

Phosphorus is used not only in energy and in cell processes (like enzymes and transport), but also in what?

What is forming DNA and RNA

200

Once that water falls to the other, what is it considered

What is groundwater

300

A model that shows the flow of energy from one trophic, or feeding, level to the next in an ecosystem

What is Energy Pyramid

300

Humans have contributed more carbon to the carbon cycle by doing what?

What is burning fossil fuels

300

Animals get most of the nitrogen they need by what?

What is "consuming plants or other animals that have the nitrogen"

300

What must happen to the rock in order for plants to absorb the phosphorus within them?

What is break down into soil

300

How does ocean/lake water return to the atmosphere?

What is evaporation

400

Each of several hierarchical levels in an ecosystem, comprising organisms that share the same function in the food chain and the same nutritional relationship to the primary sources of energy

What is Trophic Levels

400

How do herbivores and carnivores get the carbon that they need?

What is "by consuming plants and/or animals that have carbon"

400

Planting legumes in a field the year before a crop will do what to the productivity of your field?

What is "increase productivity because there is more nitrogen in the soil"

400

Herbivores and carnivores obtain phosphorus by doing what?

What is "consuming plants and/or animals that have phosphorus"

400

Which process within the water cycle is considered "biological"

What is transpiration

500

An organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide

What is Autotrophs

500

Why do we need carbon?

What is "to form DNA and proteins". The creation of cells is also acceptable

500

Nitrogen is used in the body to make what?

What is DNA and proteins

500

Phosphorus is returned to the rock cycle from plants and animals by what

What is "hardening into solid phosphate after being sediment"

500

What is "transpiration"

What is "when leaves release water through their underside to evaporate"

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