What is the process in which water enters the atmosphere from plants and leaves?
Transpiration
100
This is the most plentiful gas in the atmosphere
Nitrogen
100
What type of fuel humans burn that releases carbon dioxide?
Fossil fuel
100
A process that takes place when a liquid arises from water on earth.
Evaporation
200
What is Evaporation?
When water arises from lakes, soil, etc. and turns into gas.
200
What two places does nitrogen go when dead organisms decay?
The atmosphere and soil
200
Plants and algae uses this to make sugars
Carbon dioxide
200
What is the process that takes place when gas changes to a liquid?
Condensation
300
Which group of people uses the most water per day?
Farmers and ranchers.
300
What is the process of making nitrogen into a usable element to plants?
Nitrogen fixation
300
What process helps recycle carbon on earth?
Photosynthesis
300
Define the water cycle
Model describing how water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back to the surface again through evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
400
When water droplets come together, what forms?
Clouds
400
This contains nitrogen compunds that makes infertile soil and fertile soil
Fertilizer
400
Carbon dioxide traps more heat in the atmosphere from the sun, cauing what?
Global warming
400
What is the nitrogen cycle?
Model describing in which some type of bacteria in the soil, to living organisms, and then back to the atmosphere
500
Evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
Evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
500
Peas, clover, beans, and soy beans are these kind of crops?
Nitrogen-fixing crops
500
Coals, gas, and oil are rich with what?
Energy
500
Define the carbon cycle
Model describing how carbon molecules move between the living and non-living world.