Carbon Cycle
When an animal or plant dies where does the carbon go?
What is Soil?
What molecule in the atmosphere is nitrogen usually found in?
What is nitrogen?
What is a herbivore?
What is the eating of only plant life?
How do plants give off water?
What is transpiration?
What process removes carbon from the atmosphere?
What is photosynthesis?
What organisms does nitrogen fixation for plants occur in?
What is nitrogen fixation bacteria (legumes) and lightning?
What is it called when an organism only eats meat?
What is a carnivore?
What are the three major processes of the water cycle?
What is evaporation, condensation and precipitation?
What is an organic molecule that carbon is found in?
What is Carbohydrates?
How is extra nitrogen getting into the atmosphere?
What is fertilizers?
What is a simple chart showing energy flow from a producer through a single chain of consumers?
What is a food chain?
What percent of freshwater on earth is useable by human?
What is 1%?
What molecule do all plants get their carbon from?
What is Carbon Dioxide
What is the changing of of nitrogen into a more reactive form?
What is nitrogen fixation?
What percentage of energy is lost going up the food chain?
What is 10%?
What is it called when water evaporates from the leaves of plants and moves into the atmosphere?
What is transpiration?
what three ways can you reduce the extra carbon in the atmosphere?
What is burning less fossil fuels, planting plants, and conserving electricity?
What is the reason human beings and other living things rely on nitrogen to live?
What is protein and new cells?
What is a more complex chart demonstrating all the possible feeding relationships of the organisms in an ecosystem?
What is a food web?
What is returning nitrogen back into the atmosphere?
What is denitrification?