Bio-geo who?
This process is common to both the water and carbon cycles and involves the release of gas into the atmosphere.
What is respiration or transpiration?
Plants take in nitrates through this process.
The process by which plants use sunlight to synthesize food and produce carbon dioxide.
What is photosynthesis?
This sphere is 78% nitrogen.
What is the atmosphere?
This cycle involves the conversion of nitrogen gas into ammonia, which plants can absorb.
What is the nitrogen cycle?
Name two sources of nitrogen in the nitrogen cycle.
What are animal waste and fertilizers?
Too much carbon dioxide has this effect on the atmosphere...
What is a greenhouse gas that causes the atmosphere to warm.
The sphere that consists of rocks and minerals
What is the geosphere?
This cycle includes processes such as photosynthesis and respiration, exchanging carbon between the environment and organisms.
What is the carbon cycle?
This process involves the conversion of nitrates back into nitrogen gas, returning it to the atmosphere.
What is denitrification?
Carbon dioxide interacts with the hydrosphere by...
How can carbon dioxide be dissolved into oceans to be converted by marine plants?
Algae is an example of this sphere of Earth.
What is the biosphere?
Water can be stored during the water cycle in underground layers of rock. This is called this term.
What is an aquifer?
Eutrophication describes when too much nitrogen or too much phosphorus enter the hydrosphere and this happens as a result.
What are algae blooms?
What is a carbon sink?
We discussed the problem of "red tide" in Florida during class, this affects this sphere.
What is the hydrosphere?