Phosphorus Cycle
How do plants and animals intake Phosphorus?
What is feeding
What is the largest reservoir of water?
What is the Ocean
What is the term for when water runs over soil?
What is Runoff
What is most commonly found in the atmosphere?
What is C02
What is NO3?
What is Nitrate
Which type of rock contains the highest amount of Phosphorus?
What is a Sedimentary Rock
What powers the water cycle?
What is the Sun
What is the term for the cyclical process where an event is both a cause and an effect?
What is a Feedback Loop
What is the term for the burning of fossil fuels by humans?
What is Combustion
What is the term for plants and animals taking in Nitrogen and incorporating it into their body?
What is Assimilation
How does phosphorus enter an ecosystem?
What is the weathering of rocks
What is the term for when water vapor cools and forms clouds?
What is Condensation
What is the term for the ice sphere?
What is the Cryosphere
What is the term for the breakdown of dead organisms and their waste by decomposers?
What is Decomposition?
What is the term for when decomposers convert waste and dead biomass back into NH4?
What is Ammonification?
What is the process that exposes rock which can then undergo weathering?
What is Geological Uplift
What is the term for when water moves through the ground before draining into a larger body of water?
What does the Law of Conservation of Matter state?
What is that matter can neither be created or destroyed?
What is the term for plants and algae taking in C02?
What is photosynthesis
What weather occurrence can add Nitrogen to the atmosphere?
What is lightning
What type of cycle is the Phosphorus cycle classified as?
Daily Double
What is a Biogeochemical cycle
What is the term for the total amount of water evaporated?
What is Evapotranspiration
How many Biogeochemical cycles are there?
What is four
What is the process in which plants, animals, and decomposers release C02?
What is Cellular Respiration
What is the term for the conversion of soil Nitrogen into Nitrous Oxide?
What is Denitrification