Human Impact
What is one way that humans can impact the nitrogen cycle?
What is the creation and use of man-made fertilizer.
What takes longer, the Geological or Biological Carbon Cycle?
What is the Geological Carbon Cycle.
bacteria in the soil converts the nitrates into atmospheric nitrogen
What is Denitrification
Water vapor in liquid form that falls from the cloud as rainf, sleet, snow or hail
What is precipitation
What is Ms. Schoonmaker's late homework policy?
You can hand in an assignment for partial credit until the unit test.
What can happen if nitrogen is produced in man-made fertilizer? (hint: there are three negative consequences)
Fill-kill, algal blooms, decrease in species
Geological or Biological: Burial and Subduction
What is Geological.
The change in physical state from gas to liquid
What is condensation
If I have a question during a virtual day, what are the four ways I can get my question answered by Ms. Schoom?
Ask on the daily check-in, post a comment on the assignment, email Ms. Schoon, or ask the next time I come to class.
How can humans alter the carbon cycle? (what do we do that increases the amount of carbon in the atmosphere?)
What is burning fossil fuels.
Biological or Geological: Combustion?
What is Geological.
When symbiotic bacteria convert nitrogen into nitrates for plants
What is Nitrification
The change in physical state from liquid to gas
What is evaporation
Organisms that need nitrogen to survive
All living things
An example of a biotic factor
What is deer, people, trees, plants, flowers, etc.
Biological or Geological: Respiration or Photosynthesis
What is Biological.
How do animals get their nitrogen.
What is to consume a plant / Assimilation
What is it when evaporation occurs from the pores of a plant leaf
What is transpiration
What college did Ms. Schoon attend?
SUNY Cortland
What is an example of an abiotic factor?
Soil, rocks, temperature, water, the sun, etc.
Biological or Geological: Decomposition
What is Biological.
What step of the nitrogen cycle needs to happen in order for plants to be able to use the nitrogen?
What is nitrogen fixation.
When water moves over the land after a rain
What is runoff
What is Ms. Schoonmaker's favorite color?
What is purple