Carbon Cycle
Humans breathe this in to survive.
Oxygen
An element and component of proteins and nucleic acids that is essential to life on Earth.
Nitrogen
The process of plants taking in abiotic elements, such as water, minerals, carbon dioxide, and sunlight, then converting them into their own food source
Photosynthesis
The 3 phases/states of water
Solid, liquid, and gas
Plant life and plant-like organisms
Producers
Organisms which decompose (breakdown) the dead remain of plants and animals.
Decomposers
When living things die, their remains—and their waste products—undergo this process.
Decomposition
Plants expel this element back into the air.
Oxygen
Water changing from liquid water to water vapour.
Evaporation
The interactions and relationships of living and non-living things.
Ecosystem
A substance moving from a high area of concentration to an area of lower concentration.
Diffusion
The layer of oxygen/air and gas that surrounds the earth.
Atmosphere
The form of energy taken in by a leaf.
Radiant (light)
The process of water vapor becoming liquid water.
Condensation
Animals which mainly consume the dead bodies of other animals.
Scavengers
A natural substance formed from the buried remains of ancient organisms that can be used as a source of energy.
Fossil Fuels
a process carried out by nitrifying soil bacteria
Nitrates
The 2 products of photosynthesis
Glucose and Oxygen
People and animals give off water vapour into the atmosphere whenever they _________.
Exhale or sweat.
One of the bottom levels of the food chain eaten by secondary consumers
Abiotic
The process of living things using oxygen to release energy they need to survive gives off a by-product.
Carbon dioxide
When living organisms intake oxygen and turn it into carbon dioxide.
Nitrogen Fixation
Cells within the leaves take in sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water and convert them into glucose and oxygen
Chloroplasts
The primary form of atmospheric moisture
Water vapour
What is Ms. Ross' favorite scavenger?
Racoon