Lecture 1 Carbon/Nitrogen Cycle
Lecture 2
Lecture 3
Lecture 4
Vocabulary
100
Building block of life found in all living and once living material.
What is the Carbon Cycle?
100
A change of matter that does not change its density.
What is a physical change?
100
Gases
What is the atmosphere?
100
The three sources of radiation.
What are solar radiation, geothermal, and tidal?
100
The chemistry of materials found in Earth's crust.
What is geochemical?
200
Volcanic Eruptions.
How does carbon enter the cycle?
200
Changes into something different.
What is a chemical change?
200
Solids
What is the geosphere?
200
Does not transfer heat but they slow down Earth's rotation.
What are tidal forces?
200
Incoming solar radiation.
What is insulation?
300
An area without any oxygen.
What is a dead zone?
300
Color changes, production of sound, and pH change.
What are some signs of a chemical change?
300
Liquids
What is the Hydrosphere?
300
Can create geysers, earthquakes, and volcanoes.
What is geothermal heat?
300
The transfer of heat energy through collisions of the atoms or molecules of a substance.
What is Conduction?
400
Dead/decaying animals cause this to happen.
How does carbon leave the cycle?
400
Sequence of events that repeats over periods of time.
What is a cycle?
400
Single-celled to multiple-celled organisms.
What is the Biosphere?
400
In a closed system where energy and matter do not leave, the total mass of the system will stay the same.
What is the Law of Conservation of Mass?
400
Can be thought of as the total kinetic energy of all of the particles of the substance.
What is heat?
500
Currents move oxygen poor water up from bottom of ocean to shore/coast.
What causes a dead zone?
500
The chemistry of materials found in the Earth's crust.
What is geochemical?
500
Does not require matter to transfer energy and the only way energy can travel through space.
What is radiation?
500
Can create winds, ocean currents, and can affect the weathering of Earth's rocks.
What is solar radiation?
500
Clear, dry layer of the atmosphere.
What is Stratosphere?
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