Carbon Part 1
This is when the pH of the ocean decreases (becomes more acidic) because of excess carbon absorbed.
What is ocean acidification?
This plant process takes in carbon dioxide.
What is photosynthesis?
True or false: Humans can use nitrogen for their DNA by breathing it in the air.
False
This is why humans need phosphorus.
What are DNA, RNA, ATP, and the phospholipid bilayer?
How humans have put excess carbon into the atmosphere
What is the burning of fossil fuels?
This process in animals and plants takes in oxygen and releases carbon dioxide.
What is cellular respiration?
Excess nitrogen in fertilizer runoff can lead to excessive growth of this living thing.
What is algae?
True or false: Phosphorus can be found cycling through the atmosphere
False
This is a natural way that carbon is released from the geosphere to the atmosphere.
What are volcanic eruptions?
This is an example of a slow carbon process.
What are mountain formation, limestone formation, weathering, erosion, and fossil fuel formation?
This is the definition of nitrogen fixation.
What is the process of converting atmospheric nitrogen to a nitrogen compound (ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate) in the soil?
True or false: Phosphorus can be found in rocks
True
This type of gas, such as carbon dioxide, traps heat in the atmosphere.
What are greenhouse gases?
This is how carbon moves from the biosphere to the geosphere.
What is decomposition?
This type of bacteria converts nitrates (NO3-) in the soil back into nitrogen gas (N2).
What are denitrifying bacteria?
This is a major human source of excess nitrogen and phosphorus in the environment
What is fertilizer?
This source of carbon used daily by humans takes millions of years to form.
What are fossil fuels?
This is a place where carbon is stored, such as the ocean or limestone.
This natural phenomenon can convert nitrogen in the air (N2) directly into nitrate (NO3-) without using bacteria.
What is lightning?
This term describes excess nutrients (such as nitrogen and phosphorus) in the water, leading to harmful algal blooms.
What is eutrophication?