Once nitrogen is fixed into ammonia, it can then be changed into nitrates or nitrites. Is this process called nitrification or ammonification?
What is nitrification
100
Phosphorous rarely occurs in this state of matter.
What is gas.
100
When consumers and producers create waste products or die, what organisms break down these tissues to release carbon back into the atmosphere?
What are decomposers.
100
Name the process by which precipitation seeps down or percolates into the ground, eventually replenishing ground water supplies.
What is infiltration.
200
Nitrogen fixing bacteria live in the roots of what type of plants?
What are legumes
200
Once nitrogen is fixed into ammonia, it can also be dissolved to form ammonium. Is this process called nitrification or ammonification?
What is ammonification.
200
List three things the human body needs phosphorous for.
What are DNA, RNA, teeth, bones, ATP
200
What gas to decomposers release into the atmosphere?
What is carbon dioxide.
200
Name the process by which precipitation drains off of the land and into surface bodies of water such as rivers and oceans.
What is runoff.
300
List two examples of legumes.
What are peas, clover, and beans (also redbud trees)
300
How do animals obtain their nitrogen?
What is by eating plants or animals that eat plants.
300
Name two processes that cause phosphorous to be released from rock into the ecosystem.
What are weathering and erosion.
300
List one of the two possible carbon compounds that dead organisms can be changed into given enough time, heat, and pressure.
What are fossil fuels and limestone.
300
What does assimilate mean?
What is to take up.
400
What structure do nitrogen fixing bacteria live in inside of legume plants?
What are root nodules
400
Once animals create waste products and die, decomposers break down the compounds into forms usable by plants. Following that, bacteria change those forms back into atmospheric nitrogen. This process (the one where it goes back to N2) is called this.
What is denitrification.
400
List two ways humans alter the phosphorous cycle.
What are fertilizer runoff, animal waste runoff, sewage treatment plants.
400
Humans burn fossil fuels. Name the gas that is created when fossil fuels are burned and name the environmental problem that this contributes to.
What are carbon dioxide and global warming.
400
What are the small pore like openings in the leaves of plants that allow water vapor to be released from plants during transpiration.
What are stomata.
500
What compound do nitrogen fixing bacteria living mutualistically on plant roots change atmospheric (also called elemental) nitrogen into?
What is ammonia (NH3)
500
List two environmental problems that humans contribute to that alter the nitrogen cycle.
What are acid rain from burning fossil fuels, eutrophication, livestock waste runoff, fertilizer runoff.
500
The excess phosphorous that contributes to eutrophication causes harmful blooms of ________ that results in the depletion of __________ in the water.
What is algae, oxygen
500
List three reasons why living things need carbon (what is carbon and essential component of?).
What are proteins, fat, carbohydrates, nucleic acids
500
List ALL SIX processes that make up the water cycle.
What are evaporation, transpiration, condensation, precipitation, infiltration, and runoff.