Vocabulary
Process in which water vapor in the air is changed into liquid water.
What is condensation
Oceans, seas, lakes and rivers provide nearly 90% of the moisture in our atmosphere through which process?
What is evaporation.
Energy that drives the Carbon Cycle is provided by what?
What is Sun and heat.
This compound is an important parts of foods, fertilizers, and explosives.
It makes up 78% of Earth’s atmosphere.
Most organisms cannot use the unreactive gas.
What is Nitrogen (N2).
Ice or snow turns directly to a gas.
What is sublimation.
The downward movement of water from the land surface into soil or porous rock.
What is infiltration.
During which process do molecules of water bond back together?
What is condensation.
Which form of the Carbon Cycle where carbon interacts with the rock cycle?
What is the Geological Carbon Cycle.
What is the largest reservoir that contains about 78% of all N2?
What is the atmosphere.
Processes like forest fires or burning of fossil fuels that release carbon into the atmosphere.
What is combustion.
When plants or animals take up Nitrogen to use.
What is assimilation.
Water moving from plants or ground surface to the atmosphere
What is transpiration or evapotranspiration.
What are the microscopic marine plants that use carbon to make shells?
What are phytoplankton.
The process where N2 is broken apart by lightning, and nitrogen compounds fall with the rain.
What is atmospheric fixation.
What is Mrs. Van's cat's name?
Who is Nachooooooooooo (Nacho)
Process where N2 molecules in the air break apart and combine with other atoms to form ammonium or NH4.
What is Nitrogen Fixation.
What is the area of land where the water that falls and drains goes to the same place?
What is a watershed.
What is a product of respiration?
Carbon dioxide
Name all forms found in the Nitrogen Cycle.
• N2 atmospheric nitrogen
• N2O nitrous oxide
• NH3 ammonia
• NH4 ammonium
• NO2 nitrites
• NO3 nitrates
The reverse of photosynthesis and when sugars are used for Metabolism (fuel) and changed back into CO2.
What is respiration.
Green plants use solar energy to turn atmospheric CO2 into carbohydrates (sugar)-->C6H12O6
What is Photosythesis.
What two processes does water storage involve?
What is runoff and infiltration.
In the Geological Carbon Cycle, when the seafloor is pushed under the continental plate.
What is subduction.
What are some negative Consequences of Excess Nitrogen? List three different affects.
1. Excess N2 in groundwater can lead to cancer in humans and respiratory distress in infants.
2. Excess N2 in surface water can lead to nutrient over enrichment causing fish-kill events, algae blooms, changes in species.
3. Creates smog and acid rain.
Provides the delivery system of atmospheric water to the Earth.
What is precipitation.