The Water Cycle
The name of the process when liquid water changes into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
The gas that makes up most of Earth's atmosphere and is used in the nitrogen cycle.
What is nitrogen?
The gas plants absorb from the atmosphere during photosynthesis.
What is carbon?
What is a plant, tree,etc?
Define reciprocity.
What is a relationship of giving and receiving.
2 examples of precipitation.
What is hail, rain, or snow?
The main reason why nitrogen is important for plant growth.
What are plants use nitrogen to make chlorophyll?
What is a herbivore eats plants and carnivores eat meat?
Meaning of treating plants as relatives rather than just resources.
What is recognizing that plants are living beings that we have responsibilities towards and they aren't just things to be used.
Explain condensation.
What is when a gas turns into a liquid?
The way in which nitrogen gets from the soil into a plant?
The process where carbon moves from the atmosphere into a plant.
What is photosynthesis?
The primary consumer in the following chain is ....
grass ---> rabbit ---> fox
What is the fox?
Name a way people can show gratitude towards the land for what it provides.
What is caring for the ecosystem and habitats, harvesting respectfully, avoiding waste, and protecting water?
The name of the process when plants release water vapor through their leaves.
What is transpiration?
What is through eating?
What happens to carbon in dead organisms when decomposers break them down.
What is carbon moves into the decomposers and soil, and some is released back into the environment as carbon dioxide.
The role of decomposers in a food web.
What is paying attention to the natural world, learning from its patterns and relationships, and considering how those lessons can shape our choices?
What is ground water and runoff?
What is bacteria changes nitrogen gas from the air into a form that plants can absorb with their roots?
2 human impacts on the carbon cycle.
What is the extraction and burning of fossil fuels that releases stored carbon, deforestation which reduces photosynthesis and carbon storage, increased absorption which makes oceans more acidic, and increased CO2 in the atmosphere?
The reason why a food web is more stable than a food chain.
What is that food webs are more reflective of what happens in a healthy ecosystem and if one source of food dwindles or disappears, changes occur, but the ecosystem may not die off entirely?
Differences between reciprocity versus taking from nature.
What is taking focuses on what we receive but reciprocity focuses on what we can give back.