Water Cycle
Nitrogen Cycle
Phosphorus Cycle
Carbon Cycle
biosphere
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
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.
100
What is the biosphere?

Where all living things exists on earth?

200
What elements is water made of?

What is hydrogen and oxygen

200

Who two things "fixes" the nitrogen into a form that we can use?

What is bacteria ( in the soil) and lightning?

200

Phosphorus is the only earth cycle not found where?

What is the atmosphere?

200

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

What is cellular respiration.

200

Which part of the atmosphere produces weather?

What is the troposphere?

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

Phosphorous plays a vital role in living things. Generally what does it do?

What is helps with cellular processes?

300

Carbon is known as the element for?

What is life?

300

Which part of the atmosphere has the ozone layer and protects us from uv light?

What is the stratosphere?

400

Process when gas turns to a liquid

What is condensation

400

What percentage of our atmosphere is nitrogen?

What is 78%?
400
Herbivores and carnivores obtain phosphorus by doing what?
What is "consuming plants and/or animals that have phosphorus".
400

This process produces a small amount of ATP without oxygen.

What is fermentation?

400

What is the difference between abiotic and biotic factors?

What is biotic is living and abiotic is non-living?

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 is the elemental symbol for phosphorus?

What is P?

500
Why do we need carbon?
What is "to form DNA and proteins". The creation of cells is also acceptable.
500

Name three biomes.

What are tundra, taiga, savannah, grasslands, deciduous forest, chaparral, rainforest, desert, alpine?