Process that plants use to contribute to the carbon cycle by removing carbon dioxide and changing it into the carbon compound glucose.
What is PHOTOSYNTHESIS?
100
Liquid water changes to a gas using the sun's energy.
What is EVAPORATION?
100
Name of weather process that fixes nitrogen.
What is LIGHTNING?
100
Phase of matter that phosphorus rarely occurs as.
What is a GAS?
100
List FOUR reasons why living things need carbon.
What are PROTEINS, LIPIDS, CARBOHYDRATE, DNA (NUCLEIC ACIDS)?
200
Organisms that break down wastes and dead organisms and return carbon compounds to the atmosphere in the form of carbon dioxide.
What are DECOMPOSERS?
200
Plants release excess water as a vapor through small pores on the surface of their leaves.
What is TRANSPIRATION?
200
Percent of air that is nitrogen?
What is 78%?
200
Two things the human body needs phosphorus for.
What are DNA, ATP, RNA, BONES, TEETH?
200
Name of compound that nitrogen fixing bacteria in root nodules change atmospheric nitrogen into.
What is AMMONIA (NH4)?
300
Two forms of carbon that dead organisms can be turned into given enough time, heat, and pressure.
What are LIMESTONE DEPOSITS & FOSSIL FUELS?
300
Water vapor changes back into a liquid as the upper atmosphere cools.
What is CONDENSATION?
300
Two elements that are added to nitrogen to "fix" it.
What are OXYGEN OR HYDROGEN?
300
Two processes that cause phosphorus to be released from rock.
What is WEATHERING & EROSION?
300
This word means to take up.
What is ASSIMILATE?
400
Name of chemical process used by consumers, plants, & decomposers where carbon from food is broken down to form energy and carbon is released back into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.
What is CELLULAR RESPIRATION?
400
Precipitation that drains into surface bodies of water.
What is RUNOFF?
400
Type of plants that have nitrogen fixing bacteria in their roots and name of structures that the bacteria live in.
What are LEGUMES and ROOT NODULES?
400
List THREE ways humans contribute excess phosphorus to the phosphorus cycle.
What is FERTILIZER RUN-OFF, ANIMAL WASTE RUN-OFF, & RUN-OFF FROM SEWAGE TREATMENT?
400
Small pore-like openings on the surface of leaves that water vapor exits from and carbon dioxide enters through.
What are STOMATA?
500
List five consequences of global warming:
What are FLOODS, DROUGHTS, FAMINES, HEAT STRESS, DISEASE, FIRES, RISING SEA LEVELS, INCREASED SEVERE WEATHER, LOSS OF BIODIVERSITY.
500
Precipitation that seeps (drips/percolates) down through the soil into ground water.
What is INFILTRATION?
500
Process where bacteria change nitrogen compounds back into atmospheric nitrogen.
What is DENITRIFICATION?
500
Environmental problem causing blooms of algae that quickly die, decompose, & deplete water of oxygen.
What is EUTROPHICATION?
500
Scientific law that states that matter is not created or destroyed in a chemical reaction, it simply changes form.