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Phosphorus Cycle
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100
Water falling to the earth from condensed clouds is known as what?
What is precipitation.
100
What is wrong with atmospheric nitrogen?
What is "we can't use it".
100

What does Bio mean 

What is Life 

100
The majority of the phosphorus in the world is stored in what?
What is rocks.
100
Which biological process do plants use to take in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and get energy?
What is photosynthesis.
200
Once that water falls to the other, what is it considered?
What is groundwater.
200
Who "fixes" the nitrogen into a form that we can use?
What is bacteria (either in the soil or in the roots of legumes).
200

What does biogeochemical cycling allow nutrients to do throughout the biosphere?

What is to be recycled or reused.

200

Phosphorus is used to make ...

What is forming DNA and cell membranes.

200

Name a way carbon is released into the atmosphere using biological processes?

What is respiration .

300
How does ocean/lake water return to the atmosphere?
What is evaporation.
300
Animals get most of the nitrogen they need by what?
What is "consuming plants or other animals that have the nitrogen".
300

The Biogeochemical cycle does not enter the atmosphere

Phosphorus cycle  

300

What must happen to the rock in order for plants to absorb the phosphorus stored in them?

What is be weathered or break apart.

300

Plants need _____ _____ ______ to perform photosynthesis.

What is Sunlight, Water, and H2O

400
Which process within the water cycle is considered "biological"?
What is transpiration.
400

This is the most abundant gas in the air. 

What is "Nitrogen".

400
How are chemosynthesis and photosynthesis different?
What is "chemosynthesis requires chemical energy to produce food and can happen anywhere; photosynthesis requires sunlight energy to produce food and can only happen where sun can reach it".
400

Herbivores and carnivores obtain phosphorus by doing what?

What is "consuming plants and/or animals that have phosphorus".

400

What type of "troph" performs photosynthesis 

What are "Autotrophs".

500
What is "transpiration"?
What is "when leaves release water through their underside to evaporate".
500
Nitrogen is used in the body to make what?
What is DNA and proteins.
500

What biogeochemical cycle has bacteria "fixing" a nutrient 

What is the nitrogen cycle

500

Phosphorus is returned to the soil when plants and animals...

What is decompose, or go the bathroom.

500

Humans have contributed more carbon to the carbon cycle by doing what?

What is burning fossil fuels.