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What is the Percentage of energy lost as you move up in a food chain?
10%
How do plants return water vapor to the environment
By doing transpiration
What is one way nitrogen gets fixed?
Nitrogen-fixing bacteria
What three things do plants use to make their food? ***Photosynthesis equation***
Carbon Dioxide, water and sunlight
The atomic symbol for nitrogen.
What is N?
What are three fossil fuels?
gas, coal, oil
The process that the sun heats surface water to vapor
evaporation
Can plants use nitrogen in its elemental form (N2)? Yes/No
No
Cars and factories _________ the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Increase
The atomic symbol for carbon?
What is C?
An energy chain always starts with____?
Sunlight
We could be drinking water that was used by another person for farming years ago (True/Flase)
True
What do nitrogen fixing bacteria do?
What is make free nitrogen usable into nitrogen compounds
The process of converting atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia. Think "fixing it".
What is nitrogen fixation?
What is the name of the sugar produced in photosynthesis?
Glucose
Condensation
Carbon dioxide re-enter the atmosphere after carbon is consumed by animals. The opposite of photosynthesis.
What is respiration?
What are two types of renewable energy?
-solar
-wind
- geothermal
-hydrological
When water drops accumulate and become heavy, this will cause water to ________
Precipate
Nitrogen is converted from ammonia to nitrite to ______
nitrate
Cows produce oxygen and use carbon dioxide
False
Fish can live when there is a high concentration of NH3 (ammonia)
False