Water Cycle
Water falling to the earth from condensed clouds is known as what?
What is precipitation.
What is wrong with atmospheric nitrogen?
What is "we can't use it".
What do biological systems do to matter within the biosphere, allowing matter to recycle?
What are they move it, transform it, or change what form it comes in?
The majority of the phosphorus in the world is stored in what?
What are soil/rocks/sediment?
Which biological process do plants use to take in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and get energy?
What is photosynthesis?
Once that water is trapped below the surface levels of the soil, what is it considered?
What is groundwater?
What changes the nitrogen into a form that we can use?
What is bacteria?
What does biogeochemical cycling allow nutrients to do throughout the biosphere?
What is circulate/move?
How could you describe the two cycles that are found within the phosphorus cycle?
What is;
Short term/Biotic/Biologic Cycle
Long term/Abiotic/Environmental Cycle
Name two ways that carbon is released into the atmosphere using biological processes?
What is cellular respiration and decomposition?
How does ocean/lake water return to the atmosphere?
What is evaporation?
Animals get most of the nitrogen they need by what?
What is "consuming plants or other animals that have the nitrogen".
The amount of nutrients (such as nitrogen, oxygen, etc.) within an ecosystem is known as what?
What is nutrient availability?
What must happen to the rock in order for plants to absorb the phosphorus within them?
What is break down into soil via weather or natural disasters.
Humans have contributed more carbon to the carbon cycle by doing what?
What is burning fossil fuels.
Which movement within the water cycle is considered "biological"?
What is transpiration?
List all the abiotic and biotic sinks found in the nitrogen cycle.
Abiotic - The atmosphere, soil, and bodies of water
Biotic - Plants, bacteria and animals
What two cycles are limiting cycles/nutrients?
What are nitrogen and phosphorus?
Herbivores and carnivores obtain phosphorus by doing what?
What is "consuming plants and/or animals that have phosphorus".
How do herbivores and carnivores get the carbon that they need?
What is "by consuming plants and/or animals that have carbon".
List all the abiotic and biotic sinks found in the water cycle.
Abiotic - The atmosphere, soil, and bodies of water
Biotic - Plants
What are the three ways the bacteria change nitrogen?
What are;
Nitrogen Fixation - Changing from gas to compound form.
Denitrification - Changing from compound to gas form.
Decomposition - Changing from compound to a new compound form
Which cycle is least dependent on biologic processes?
What is the water cycle?
Phosphorus is returned to the abiotic cycle from plants and animals by what?
What are wastes being decomposed and deposited into the soil/rocks?
List all the abiotic and biotic sinks found in the carbon cycle.
Abiotic - The atmosphere, soil, and bodies of water
Biotic - Plants, fossil fuels, and animals