Classification
how many classifications are there
what is 4?
in the process of photosynthesis to make sugar and oxygen
How do plants use CO2?
Rocks and minerals
What is phosphorus contained in?
our atmosphere is made up a percent of nitrogen gas
What is 78%?
groundwater, evaporation, condensation, precipitation
What are the phases of the water cycle?
Activities performed by living organisms
What is biological?
Dead and decaying plants and animals
Where are huge deposits of carbon stored?
phosphorus soils can run into
What are water basins?
Special bacteria that use nitrogen directly form the atmosphere so that others organisms can use it
What are nitrogen fixing bacteria?
process in which element, chemical compounds, and other forms of matter are passed from one organism to another and from one part of the biosphere to another
What is the biochemical cycle
Mining and burning of fossil fuels, clearing of land, use of fertilizers
What is human activity?
Too much CO2 in the air
What causes the green house effect?
phosphorus can move between
What is soil and plants?
ammonia and nitrate are created by…
What is animal waste decay?
Chemical substances that an organism needs to sustain life
What are nutrient?
Volcanic eruptions, rock formations, and plate tectonics
What is geological
Main regulator of carbon in the atmosphere
What is the ocean
Ways the phosphorus gets back into the soil
What are animal waste products?
humans adding fertilizers that adds nitrogen
What can cause run offs?
Organisms need what to carry out life function
What are nutrients
Formation of clouds, lighting flow of water
What is chemical/physical?
water+carbon=energy
What is the photosynthesis equation
Too much phosphorus in water
What leads to overgrowth ?
Bacteria that breaks down ammonia in the soil back to nitrogen’s gaseous form.
What are denitrification bacteria?
Matter is not a one way system like energy instead it can be…
What is cycled through?