Carbon Cycle
Large deposits of carbon underground.
What is coal, oil, and natural gas?
The amount of nitrogen that makes up our atmosphere
What is 78%?
An essential nutrient to life because it makes up DNA
What is Phosphorus?
A nutrient whose supply limits productivity.
What are Limiting Nutrients?
A result of enormous amounts CO2 in our atmosphere.
What is the Greenhouse effect?
This “fixes” Nitrogen gas for use by plants and animals while the gas is still in the atmosphere.
What is Lightning?
A effect of too much phosphorus in water sources; lakes, ocean, etc…
What is overgrowth?
Chemical substances that an organism needs to sustain life.
What are Nutrients?
A natural source of CO2
What are volcanos?
When nitrogen fertilizer seeps into water sources from farms.
What is Runoff fertilizer?
Phosphorus is only naturally found in these
What are rocks and minerals?
Coal, oil, and natural gases
What are Fossil Fuels?
The release of more carbon in our atmosphere than in the past.
What is burning of fossil fuels?
Bacteria that can directly use the in our atmosphere, this allows other organisms to also benefit.
What are Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria?
An effect of too much phosphorus causing overgrowth
What is ecosystem destabilization?
Products rich in nitrogen, and useful for plants to use.
What are Nitrate porducts?
The main regulator of the amount of CO2 in our atmosphere.
What is the ocean?
Bacteria in the soil that break down the ammonia into the gaseous form of nitrogen, which cannot be used by plants or animals.
What are Denitrification Bacteria?
A source of phosphorus in water; caused by humans
What is Man-Made Pollution?
Process in which element, chemical compound, 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?