Nutrients
This is where mushrooms get their organic nutrients.
What is the soil (or any plant material)?
Humans are always losing this type of energy, even while asleep.
What is heat?
This is the process by which water goes from a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
This was the year that the first genetically edited human baby was born.
When was 2018?
This event created space itself, and is considered the beginning of our universe.
What is the Big Bang?
This is how farms can add new organic nutrients to the soil.
What is fertilizer?
This is the most abundant source of energy available for almost all ecosystems on Earth.
What is sunlight?
For thousands of years, this is how farmers moved river water into their fields.
What is irrigation?
The genetic coding for human beings is recorded in this 3-letter acronym.
What is DNA?
This is how old our universe is (+/- 1 billion years)
13.8 billion years
(so anything from 12.8-14.8 billion years old is acceptable).
These are two examples of organisms that are decomposers.
What are fungi/mushrooms, snails, worms, termites, bacteria?
This is eventually produced when organic matter is not decomposed for millions of years and instead compacted into solid rock form.
What is coal (or fossil fuels)?
(A fossil counts too)
These are the elements in a water molecule.
What are hydrogen and oxygen?
This gender is colorblind less often because their 23rd chromosome has two X's, and one of those X's can override the other X chromosome if it has the colorblind gene.
Who are genetic females?
This was a rapid evolution of many complex animals that occurred about 540 million years ago.
What is the Cambrian Explosion?
These are two inorganic nutrients found in the air.
What are O2 and CO2? (water vapor, too)
Besides sunlight, these can be another biological energy source.
What are organic nutrients (organic matter)?
Besides rain, this is another natural way that an ecosystem can get water.
What is surface water? (rivers, streams, ponds, lakes, wetlands)
Or groundwater, condensation from fog/mist/vapor, runoff...
This kingdom of organisms is more closely related to animals than to plants.
What are fungi? (molds, mushrooms)
This process is where atoms combine and release energy, and it is also how every star releases energy.
What is nuclear fusion?
(we'd also accept nucleosynthesis)
In a tropical rainforest (warm and sunny), this is where most of the nutrients will be stored.
What are the trees?
This is the where humans get all their biological energy from.
What is food?
Water can prevent bacteria from getting to this inorganic nutrient (which prevents the bacteria from decomposing the organic matter).
What is oxygen?
Other than DNA, this is another way for organisms to encode genetic information.
What is RNA?
This is a vital material that we think is necessary for life, and was delivered to Earth by comets that formed back when our solar system formed.
What is water?