Water Cycle
During the water cycle, what is the process by which clouds release water in the form of rain, sleet, snow?
In the carbon cycle, what is the primary gas released into the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels?
Carbon dioxide
What is the most abundant gas on Earth, making up approximately 78% of the air we breathe?
N2 gas
What is the primary source of phosphorus in the phosphorus cycle?
Earth's crust
What element, crucial to all living organisms, plays a role in the water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles?
Oxygen
What term describes the process by which water vapor rises into the atmosphere from the Earth's surface?
Evaporation
What is the primary process by which carbon dioxide is absorbed by plants?
In the nitrogen cycle, what is the process by which nitrogen gas is converted into ammonia by bacteria?
Nitrogen fixation
How does phosphorus trapped in rock become available for biological uptake?
Weathering
What are the 2 energy sources involved in photosynthesis and cell respiration?
sun and ATP
What is the primary energy source that drives the water cycle, causing evaporation and transpiration?
Sun/solar/heat
What is the name for the process by which humans burn fossil fuels?
Combustion
What is the term in the nitrogen cycle when ammonia is converted into nitrates and nitrites?
Nitrification
Wind blows over rocks in the desert creating smooth playas, what is this process an example of?
Physical/mechanical weathering
What is the process by which soil nitrates are converted back into nitrogen gas?
Denitrification
What part of the water cycle describes the movement of water through plants an its subsequent release into the atmosphere?
Transpiration
How do living organisms return carbon dioxide to the atmosphere?
Respiration
Nitrogen-fixing bacteria live in the roots of what kind of plants?
Legumes
What form of phosphate is taken up by plants?
Phosphates
Lightning is a part of which cycle?
Nitrogen
What is the term for the processes by which water enters the soil and becomes part of the groundwater?
Infiltration
What is the name for something that removes more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases? An example being fossil fuels.
Carbon sink
What is the process in which nitrogen runoff causes the overgrowth of algae in an aquatic ecosystem?
Eutrophication
Identify at least 2 biological molecules that require phosphorus.
Nucleic acids, phospholipids, ATP
What is the best horror movie franchise?
Scream