Water Cycle
Water falling to the earth from condensed clouds.
What is precipitation?
The type of bacteria that lives on legumes such as kidney beans and lentils.
What is nitrogen-fixing bacteria on roots?
Which cycle heavily relies on soil bacteria?
What is the nitrogen cycle?
The majority of the phosphorus in the world is stored as this type of rock.
What is sedimentary rocks?
The biological process plants do to take in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and get energy.
What is photosynthesis?
The water found in the soil deep underground.
What is groundwater?
The type of bacteria releases nitrogen back into the atmosphere.
What is denitrifying bacteria?
Limestone is this type of rock.
What is sedimentary rock?
This is the process of phosphorus traveling through soil and leaking into waterways.
What is leaching?
The way carbon is released from plants and animals by breathing.
What is respiration?
Water as a liquid form turning into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
Tee way animals get most of the nitrogen they need.
What is consuming plants and/or other animals?
The way carbon is found in living things.
What is organic carbon?
This is the natural way phosphorus is exposed and allowed to runoff to the soil or waterways.
What is weathering and erosion?
This is what humans burn for energy and has contributed more carbon to the carbon cycle.
What is fossil fuels?
The evaportation of water from trees and other plants.
What is transpiration?
This is what nitrogen-fixing bacteria turns atmospheric nitrogen into.
What is ammonium (NH4+)?
The only cycle that does not include the atmosphere.
What is the phosphorus cycle?
This is how carnivores obtain phosphorus.
What is consuming plants and/or animals?
The word to describe what happens to urine, feces, and dead organic matter in over 1 million years
What is fossil fuels?
The saturation of water into the ground.
What is percolation?
Nitrifying bacteria turns ammonium into these compounds.
What is nitrates and nitrites?
The type of organism essential to most of the cycles beacuse of their ablilty to break down dead matter.
What is decomposers?
Phosphorus that settled into the bottom of a body of water.
What is sedimentation?
This is the term used to describe the gases that warm the planet and can lead to global warming.
What is greenhouse gases?