Water Cycle
What do you call it when the water is falling out of the clouds?
What is precipitation
What is it when plants take carbon from the atmosphere.
What is photosynthesis
What is the process that converts atmospheric nitrogen into usable compounds.
What is nitrogen fixation.
What is it called when melted snow comes off of the mountains into another body of water?
What is snow runoff
Things we burn that are really old and release a lot of carbon into the atmosphere.
What are fossil fuels.
What makes up about 80% of the earths atmosphere?
What is nitrogen.
What is it called when the water heats up and turns into a gas?
What is evaporation
What is it called when organisms break down the carbon compounds and release carbon int the atmosphere.
What is decomposition.
What is the process called when nitrate is converted back into nitrogen gas and returned to the atmosphere
What is denitrification.
What is it called when the gasses form into clouds?
What is condensation
Where is most of the carbon in the world stored?
What is the ocean.
What types of nitrogen do plants absorb from the soil.
What is ammonia,ammonium,nitrate or nitrite
Where does the most evaporation happen on earth?
What is the ocean
What are fossil fuels formed from?
What is dead organic matter.
What do animals get nitrogen from?
What is plants.