Carbon Cycle
Name that Cycle
Nitrogen Cycle
Processes
Phosphorus Cycle
Calcium, Magnesium, & MISC
100
Carbon in the atmosphere is transformed by plants into glucose and oxygen using this process
What is photosynthesis?
100
This nutrient is cycles through using the physical and chemical weathering of rocks
What is the phosphorus cycle?
100
Nitrogen is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere. It makes up approximately this percentage of the atomosphere
What is 78% (or close to)
100

Process where water from the deep ocean rises to the surface

What is upwelling?

100
Phosphorus is essential to living things. In plants it promotes root growth, stem strength and this
What is seed production?
100

This metal is needed by producers to synthesize chlorophyll

What is "magnesium"?

200

volcanic eruptions cause the release of this gas; plants and animals release this gas

What is carbon dioxide

200
This nutrient cycles through ecosystems by photosynthesis, cellular respiration and decomposition.
What is the carbon cycle?
200
Excess nitrogen usually ends up here
What are the oceans or waterways?
200

The ocean becomes this when the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere become greater

What is "sink"?

200
Phosphorus is found everywhere except here
What is the atmosphere? (or gaseous state)
200

Chalk is made out of this and phytoplankton uses calcium to produces these scales

What is "coccolithophores"?

300
Decomposers break down large quantities of this in the carbon cycle
What is cellulose
300
Increased levels of nutrients in this cycle can lead to some plants becoming abundant and out competing other species
What is the Nitrogen Cycle?
300

Process where bacteria covert free N2 into a organic forms

What is Nitrogen Fixation?

300

Process where nutrients in the surface layer of the ocean become part of the sediment on the bottom of the ocean

What is "Marine Snow"?

300
Phosphorus enters plants through this method
What is by their roots via water in the soil?
300

creation of bones, corals, shells

what is calcium?

400
Carbon is being removed from long term storage such as these 2 major carbon stores
What is oil and gas (or coal)
400
Changes in this cycle are primarily responsible for climate change (global warming)
What is the Carbon Cycle?
400
Nitrates are converted back to N2 (nitrogen gas) by this kind of bacteria
What is denitrifying bacteria?
400

Place where absorbed nutrients can remain for thousands of years

What is coral?

400

The biological uses for this cycle (phosphorus)

What is the creation of DNA and bone?

400

a place where a large quantity of a resource (such as nutrients) sits for a long period of time.

What is a reservoir?

500
Carbohydrates release energy to consumers using this process (BONUS: What is the chemical equation?)
What is respiration C6H12O6 + O2 ---> CO2 + H2O + energy
500
Bacteria and lightening play a major role in this cycle. BONUS: What is the name of the process they are involved in?
What is the Nitrogen cycle? What is Nitrogen Fixation?
500

Nitrogen is biologically important for this reason

What is making protein/ protein synthesis?

500

Process where water moves underground through rocks from land into the ocean

What is leaching?

500

Major source where phosphorus can be found

What is the rocks of Apatite?

500

The movement of abiotic factors between the living and nonliving components within ecosystems

What is the Biogeochemical Cycles/ nutrient cycles

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