Carbon Cycle
Does carbon cycle through Earth's spheres fast or slow?
What is both?
Name both pathways of the water cycle.
What is runoff and groundwater?
What do you call water that moves through spaces in soil and rock?
What is groundwater?
How do animals obtain phosphorus?
What is by eating plants?
What causes a sedimentary rock to become a metamorphic rock?
What is heat and pressure?
What is the chemical formula for carbon?
What is CO2?
What is the chemical formula for water?
What is H2O?
What do you call the process that releases carbon back into the carbon cycle?
What is decomposition?
Where can you find phosphorus?
What is in every living thing, soil, rocks, and water?
How does a metamorphic rock become an igneous rock?
What is by heating and cooling?
Explain the definition of combustion.
What is the process of fuel burning?
What comes after precipitation in the water cycle?
What is condensation?
Sing the chorus to the water cycle song.
Good enough
(Bonus points: x2 points for this question)
How does phosphorus return to the soil when animals die?
What is through decomposition?
Which type of rock is formed by being exposed to heat and pressure?
What is a metamorphic rock?
Use five or less words to describe the carbon cycle.
What is (example: the planet's ultimate recycling system)
Name four steps in the water cycle.
What is precipitation, evaporation, condensation, transpiration.
Definition of the rock cycle.
What is the process which where rocks change from one to another?
What are the steps to the phosphorus cycle?
What is when roots of plants absorb it from the ground, then animals eat the plant and it progresses up the food webs?
Name one process by which rocks change.
What is heat and pressure, erosion and weathering, cementation and compaction, or melting and cooling.
Name three steps in the carbon cycle.
What is (e.g. respiration, decomposition, photosynthesis, combustion, natural gas)
What causes precipitation?
What is when water drops get too big?
What are the two types of metamorphic rock?
What is foliated and no foliated?
What is the chemical symbol on the periodic table for phosphorus?
What is chemical symbol P?
Name the three types of rocks and what creates them.
What is metamorphic rock, formed by heat and pressure, sedimentary rock, formed by cementation, and igneous rock, formed by melting and cooling?