Biogeochemical Cycles
The acronym to remember the elements that have biogeochemical cycles.
What is CHNOPS or CHONPS?
The transition of water from the solid to the gas phase?
What is evaporation?
The two products of photosynthesis.
What are Sugars and oxygen?
The organisms that drives the Nitrogen Cycle
What are bacteria?
The chemical name of substances with the formula PO43-.
What are Phosphates?
The biogeochemical cycle that takes the longest amount of time.
What is the phosphorus cycle?
The transition of water from the gas to the liquid phase?
What is condensation?
These organisms are responsible for decomposition
What are fungi and bacteria (decomposers)?
What happens during assimilation?
Plants absorb the nitrogen from the ground.
The most abundant natural sources of phosphates?
What are rocks and soil?
The biogeochemical cycle that is responsible for the sky appearing the color blue.
What is the Nitrogen Cycle?
The energy that drives the water cycle
What is solar or thermal energy?
This occurs in all plants and animals
What is respiration?
What happens during denitrification?
Nitrate (NO3-) gets converted back to Nitrogen gas (N2)
The process which causes phosphates to move from rocks to water and soil.
What is erosion (by wind and water)?
The four biogeochemical cycles we learned.
What are the carbon cycle, the water cycle, phosphorus cycle and the nitrogen cycle?
The movement of liquid water from plants to the atmosphere.
What is transpiration?
The burning of fossil fuels
What is combustion?
What happens during Nitrogen Fixation?
Nitrogen gas (N2) gets converted to ammonia (NH3)
The reason phosphorus is an essential nutrient for living thngs.
What is it is contained in DNA?
The definition of biogeochemical cycles
What are any natural pathway by which essential elements of living matter are circulated.
The movement of liquid water across the surface of the land into the ground.
What is infiltration?
The definition of Fossil Fuels and where they are used.
Fossil fuels are coal, oil, and natural gas. They are used in factories/power plants.
What happens during ammonification?
Decomposers turn the nitrogen in dead plants/animals into Ammonium NH4+
The process by which rocks are "pushed" to the surface from beneath the earth.
What is geological uplift?