Biogeochemical Cycles
The four biogeochemical cycles we learned.
What are the carbon cycle, the water cycle, phosphorus cycle and the nitrogen cycle?
The four types of precipitation
What are rain, snow, sleet and hail?
Earth's thinnest and coolest layer
Crust
This layer of the atmosphere is where we live
Troposphere
My full last name (spelled)
What is J E N K I N S
This nutrient cycle is the only one that DOES NOT cycle through the atmosphere
What is the phosphorus cycle
The underground layers that hold water.
What are aquifers?
Earth's densest layer
What is the mantle
The prefixes in Earth's spheres.........
What are geo, bio, atmos, and hydro
The world's oceans contain how much of Earth's water?
What is 97%
This occurs in all plants and animals
What is respiration?
The burning of fossil fuels
What is combustion?
This layer of the atmosphere is where meteors burn out
What is the mesosphere?
This sphere contains all of Earth's landforms, rocks, and minerals.
What is the Geosphere or Lithoshere
How many kids do I have?
What is ZERO
The definition of Denitrification
What is the converting of nitrate to nitrogen gas?
Converting nitrogen gas to a usable form for plants and animals.
What is Nitrogen fixation?
These two elements make up the inner and out core of Earth
What are Iron and Nickel
This is the outermost layer of atmosphere
What is the exosphere
How old am I?
What is 24?
Atmospheric Nitrogen
N2
This is Carbon's atmospheric form
What is CO2
DAILY DOUBLE!
The definition of Fossil Fuels and where they are used.
This is another name for the geosphere.
What is Lithosphere
During Forest Fires, excess carbon is released into the atmosphere. The carbon released comes from where?
The plants/ trees being burned