Name the Cycle
Cycle which is dependent on bacteria for nitrogen fixation and denitrification
What is the Nitrogen cycle?
Process in which sunlight is used to change atmospheric carbon into biomolecules used for energy by living things
What is Photosynthesis?
Process in which condensed water in clouds falls to the Earth’s surface
What is precipitation?
What is the atmosphere?
The largest reservoir of Phosphorus.
rocks
Cycle in which photosynthesis and cellular respiration participate
What is the Carbon Cycle?
Process in which the break down of sugars in living things returns carbon to the atmosphere as CO2
What is cellular respiration?
Process in which liquid water changes into gas form
What is evaporation?
Nitrogen makes up this much of the atmosphere.
78%
Excessive use of fertilizers can cause eutrophication, which comes from the growth of this photosynthetic organism.
Algae/algal blooms
Cycle that involves transpiration
What is the Water Cycle
Sources of carbon found underground that are composed of plants and animals that died millions of years ago.
Process in which water vapor (gas) changes into liquid water
What is condensation?
Process in which nitrogen gas from the atmosphere is converted into ammonia by bacteria that live in the soil and on the roots of plants called legumes
Nitrogen fixation
In lakes with eutrophication, fish die from a lack of this.
What is Oxygen?
Only cycle which does not pass through the atmosphere
What is the phosphorus cycle?
From the video we watched, it takes this long for a new forest to become a carbon sink.
10-20 years
Process in which water evaporates from the surface of plant leaves
What is transpiration?
Process in which soil bacteria convert nitrogen compounds in soil back into nitrogen gas which is released into the atmosphere
What is denitrification?
When bacteria growth from eutrophication becomes toxic it can form this, that makes us sick.
What is Red Tide?
Another name for the water cycle
What is the Hydrologic Cycle?
A way that humans can reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
What is using less fossil fuels, planting trees, or not tearing down trees?
Massive deforestation will cause this part of the water cycle to decrease.
What is transpiration?
Two things that nitrogen is the building blocks of for humans
What is Proteins (amino acids) and DNA?
Animals cannot make phosphorus and must get it from eating plants, who get phosphorus from this source.
What are eroded rocks?