Biogeochemical Cycles
What is one constant across all four BioGeoChemical cycles
What is the amount of elements are constant and only change form.
The process when water vapor cools and turns back into liquid.
What is Condensation?
The process plants use to convert carbon dioxide into glucose
What is Photosynthesis?
The process by which nitrogen gas is converted into ammonia by bacteria
What is Nitrogen Fixation?
The primary source of phosphorus in the environment
What are rocks?
This BioGeoChemical cycle could not occur without bacteria
What is the Nitrogen cycle?
The movement of water from plants to the atmosphere?
What is transpiration?
The process by which animals and plants release carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere
What is Respiration?
The name of the process where plants absorb nitrates from the soil
What is assimilation?
The process releases that phosphorus from rocks into the soil
What is Weathering?
The biogeochemical cycle that drives two other cycles
What is the Water Cycle?
The term for water that flows over the ground surface and into bodies of water
What is the Runoff?
The term for the long-term storage of carbon such as in the form of fossil fuels
What is carbon sequestration?
The process when bacteria convert ammonia into nitrites and then nitrates
What is Nitrification?
The term for the incorporation of phosphorus into organic molecules by plants and animals
What is assimilation?
The biogeochemical cycle that takes the longest amount of time
What is the phosphorus cycle
The underground layer of water-soaked rock or soil
What is an aquifer?
the process when carbon dioxide is absorbed by the ocean and forms carbonic acid
What is Ocean Acidification?
The term for the conversion of nitrates back into nitrogen gas by bacteria
What is Denitrification?
the process when phosphorus is returned to the soil from dead plants and animals
What is decomposition?
The biogeochemical cycle with no atmoshperic phase
What is the phosphorus cycle
the process when water changes directly from a solid to a gas without becoming liquid first
What is Sublimation?
the name of the process where carbon is released into the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels
What is Combustion
The breakdown of organic nitrogen compounds into ammonia or ammonium
What is Ammonification?
The term for the mass movement of phosphorus from the soil into to water bodies, resulting in algal blooms
What is eutrophication?