Water Cycle
Precipitation can fall as what two states of matter?
What is a solid or liquid?
What gas makes up most of the earth’s atmosphere?
What is nitrogen?
Which two stresses are man made?
drought habitat destruction
flood overfishing
What is...Habitat destruction and overfishing?
Which effect is a benefit of the stress of a fire?
A. they are part of the cycles of matter and change
B. that nutrients are recycled into the soil
c. many changes in succession
What is B- that nutrients are recycled into the soil?
What is one way that a flood and a drought are different?
What is...A drought is more likely to cause fires than a flood is?
Which Earth system includes all of Earth’s water?
What is hydrosphere?
Why are decomposers part of the nitrogen cycle?
What is...Because decomposers return nitrogen compounds back to the soil for plants?
What stress does not have a definite beginning or ending?
fire * drought * flood
What is drought?
God uses cycles to maintain His earth, therefore
A. Earth has regular cycles of change
B. the seasonal water, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen cycles are described as repeating
C. it changes in average temperatures each year
What is A-Earth has regular cycles of change?
What is a biblical approach for using natural resources?
What is...Being a good steward of God’s creation means that a person needs to find the right balance so that natural resources can be used and not wasted?
What is it called when water vapor is released from plant leaves through the stomata?
What is transpiration?
In the carbon and oxygen cycles, what do plants need for photosynthesis?
What is...Water, carbon dioxide and the sun’s energy?
Which organism is considered to be threatened?
What is...The banded sunfish population?
Natural and manmade stresses can cause...
A. that nutrients are recycled into the soil
B. harm when the organism is introduced
C. many changes in succession
What is C. many changes in succession?
What is the biblical relationship people should have with ecosystems?
What is...God gave people the responsibility to manage and take care of ecosystems. Taking responsibility and wisely managing them glorifies God?
During what two processes of the water cycle does the state of matter change from a liquid to a gas?
condensation evaporation
precipitation transpiration
What is evaporation and transpiration?
During cellular respiration, what do cells use oxygen for?
What is...To break down sugar into usable energy?
What is the job of an aquatic ecologist?
What is...To study the plants and animals that live in or near the water?
Each step happens in a circular pattern, so ________.
A. it changes in the amount of precipitation a lot
B. the seasonal water, carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen cycles are described as repeating.
C. these areas have wet and dry seasons
What is B. the seasonal water, carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen cycles are described as repeating?
In the carbon and oxygen cycles, what is one difference between cellular respiration and photosynthesis?
A. Cellular respiration adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Photosynthesis removes it from the atmosphere.
B. Cellular respiration removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Photosynthesis adds it back to the atmosphere.
C. Cellular respiration produces oxygen and sugar molecules. Photosynthesis produces carbon dioxide and sugar molecules.
What is answer A?
God created each cycle to depend on the other cycles. In what two ways do the other cycles depend on the water cycle?
What is...
In the carbon and oxygen cycles, the water cycle is needed for photosynthesis.
AND
In the nitrogen cycle, nitrogen compounds are made available to plants through precipitation.
In the nitrogen cycle, how is nitrogen changed into nitrogen compounds?
What is...Some bacteria and lightening can change nitrogen into nitrogen compounds?
What are two ways natural stresses can benefit the earth?
What is...Some natural stresses can put an ecosystem back in balance AND Some natural stresses recycle nutrients into the soil?
Monsoons blow across the water and land, so _____.
A. Earth has regular cycles of change
B. it changes the amount of precipitation a lot
C. these areas have wet and dry seasons.
What is C. these areas have wet and dry seasons?
Why do people add fish ladders to dams?
What is to reduce habitat destruction?