Water Cycle
This word is used to describe rainfall.
What is precipitation?
Animals do or do not play a part in the nitrogen cycle.
How are animals factored into the nitrogen cycle?
This is the number of objects on Earth that relate to carbon.
Why is everything on Earth carbon-based?
The main cause of climate change.
Why are the ice caps melting?
This provides energy to the entire food web.
What is the sun?
The term that is used to describe the change from solid to gas.
What is sublimation?
This is what leaching is.
Is leaching the process of materials like fertilizer going into groundwater to be brought somewhere else?
How do fossil fuels contribute to the carbon cycle?
Why do fossil fuels release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere?
The reason for the ice caps melting.
What is global warming?
The category of living organisms that change the energy from the sun to usable energy.
What are producers?
This term is used for water that runs off of mountains commonly due to melting snow.
What is runoff?
This is how lightning affects the nitrogen cycle.
Is it due to the fact that lightning is a form of nitogen fixation?
This happens when organic waste breaks down and decomposes.
Why does organic waste release methane gas that combines with oxygen to make Co2?
This is the main reason for global warming.
Why do people burn fossil fuels?
This term is used for organisms that devour others.
What are consumers?
Why do the ice caps contain 1.7% of Earth´s water?
This is why animals are a factor in the nitrogen cycle.
Why do animals dispose of nitrogen through organic waste?
This is how much the US uses fossil fuels.
Why does the US use natural gases as 40% of its power?
How trees affect the speed of global warming.
Why do trees release carbon gasses once people cut them?
This term is used for the top predator of a food web.
What is an apex predator?
This is the percentage of water that is underground.
Why is 1.69% of Earth´s water underground?
This is the amount of nitrogen in the atmosphere.
Why is 78% of the atmosphere nitrogen?
This is the amount of carbon dioxide that is released when burning one kg of anthracite.
Why does it release 3.3kg of Co2?
How waste affects global warming.
Decomposers are or are not important when making a food web.
Why do people decide to leave decomposers out of food webs?