Carbon Cycle
This nutrient is cycles through erosion of rocks
What is the phosphorus cycle?
Nitrogen makes up approximately this percentage of the atmosphere
What is 78%? (okay if you are within 3% of the answer)
Carbon in plants
What is short term
Phosphorus is found everywhere except here
What is the atmosphere?
Volcanic eruptions cause the release of this gas
What is carbon dioxide?
This nutrient cycles through ecosystems by photosynthesis, cellular respiration, and decomposition.
What is carbon?
Excess nitrogen (e.g., from human overuse) usually ends up here
What are the oceans and waterways?
Carbon in coal and oil deposits
What is long term storage?
Phosphorus is essential to living things. Two important functions discussed in class are building cell membranes and...
What is cellular energy (ATP)?
Decomposers break down large quantities of this in the carbon cycle
What is cellulose? (or what is dead organic matter and waste?)
Increased levels of nutrients in these cycles can lead dead zones in the Chesapeake Bay
What are the nitrogen and phosphorus cycles?
The term for nitrogen when it is a form usable by plants and animals
What is nitrate?
Carbon in ocean sediment
What is long term?
Phosphorus enters plants through this location (of the plant)
What is by their roots?
Carbon is being removed from long term storage such as these 2 major carbon stores
What are fossil pools and ocean sediment?
Changes in this cycle are primarily responsible for climate change
What is the carbon cycle?
Nitrates are converted back to N2 (nitrogen gas) by these organisms (or name the process)
What are denitrifying bacteria?
Nitrogen in animal protein
What is short term?
Humans have a major impact on the phosphorus cycle and mine it for this product, which is used in two main locations (give the product and the two locations)
What is fertilizer, and what are farms and lawns?
Carbohydrates release energy to consumers using this process
What is (cellular) respiration? (aka metabolism)
What are the names of the fluxes (processes) that make atmospheric nitrogen available to plants?
What are nitrogen fixation and nitrification?
Atmospheric nitrogen gas is fixed by these three mechanisms
What are legumes, nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and lightning?
You might find harmful amounts of phosphorus in this common household item
What is laundry detergent?