Rock Cycle
Nitrogen Cycle
Carbon Cycle
The Water Cycle
100
The processes by which new rock forms.
What is the rock cycle?
100
The series of processes by which nitrogen and its compounds are interconverted in the environment and in living organisms, including nitrogen fixation and decomposition.
What is the nitrogen cycle?
100
Roughly 99% of carbon is stored deep within the Earth’s ______.
What is surface?
100
The processes of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation .
What is the water cycle?
200
A naturally occurring solid mixture of one or more minerals. Some of these also contain the remains of living things.
What is rock?
200
Plants absorb nitrogen directly from the ___.
What is soil?
200
The series of processes by which carbon compounds are interconverted in the environment, chiefly involving the incorporation of carbon dioxide into living tissue by photosynthesis and its return to the atmosphere through respiration, the decay of dead organisms, and the burning of fossil fuels.
What is the carbon cycle?
200
When water evaporates into the atmosphere, it cools and condenses to form clouds through a process called ______.
What is condensation?
300
Scientists that study the solid and and liquid matter that constitutes the Earth as well as the processes that shape it are called ______.
What is a geologist?
300
A key component in the nitrogen cycle.
What is bacteria?
300
Carbon in the air is attached to oxygen and is known as a molecule. What is the molecule called?
What is carbon dioxide?
300
The water cycle is the Earth's way of _______ ______.
What is recycling water?
400
The sizes, shape, and positions of the grains that make up a rock.
What is texture?
400
There are many steps in the nitrogen cycle including fixation, nitrification, assimilation, ammonification, and _________.
What is denitrification?
400
The ocean takes up quite a bit of carbon dioxide to provide this for it's plants.
What are nutrients?
400
Can occur in the form of falling rain, sleet, snow, or hail.
What is precipitation?
500
The combination of elements or compounds that make up a rock.
What is composition?
500
After a plant dies, it decomposes where bacteria turn the nitrogen back into ammonium through a process called ________.
What is ammonification?
500
Carbon is number __ on the most abundant elements in the universe list. Fill in the blank.
What is 4?
500
__% of the water on Earth is freshwater or water that we can drink
What is 3?
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