Water Cycle
This process turns liquid into water vapor
What is evaporation?
Bacteria in the soil and on plant roots perform this process to make nitrogen usable for plants.
What is Nitrogen Fixation?
Why is the phosphorus cycle unique
because it doesn't have an atmospheric phase
What does carbon move through
The first part of the hydro cycle where water releases from leaves into the atmosphere
What is transpiration?
When plants and animals take in nitrogen to build proteins and DNA, this process is occurring.
What is assimilation?
What abiotic processes move phosphorus?
sedimentation, geologic uplift, and weathering
What is another form of carbon movement?
Sedimentation
rain, snow, sleet, and hail are this stage of the water cycle
What is precipitation?
when organisms die and fungal and bacterial organisms break down the organic matter to covert it back to ammonium
What is ammonification or mineralization
How does phosphorus travel
through assimilation and mineralization.
When organisms use their proportions of carbon and release carbon dioxide
What is aerobic respiration?
When water vapor cools and forms clouds, this process occurs.
What is condensation?
The process where bacteria convert ammonia into nitrates that plants can absorb.
What is Nitrification?
Over time, rain and weathering cause rocks to release phosphate ions in this process.
What is erosion?
Plants take in carbon dioxide during this process to make glucose.
What is photosynthesis?
The process where water seeps into the ground and refills aquifers.
What is infiltration?
This process converts nitrates in the soil back into nitrogen gas, returning it to the atmosphere.
What is denitrification?
Excess phosphorus from fertilizers can cause this harmful process in water ecosystems.
What is eutrophication (algal blooms)?
Carbon that’s been trapped underground for millions of years becomes these energy sources.
What is fossil fuels?