Water
This term describes water changing from a liquid to a gas, a process important for transpiration in plants.
What is evaporation?
This process by which plants convert carbon dioxide into glucose and oxygen is essential to the carbon cycle.
what is photosynthesis
This process in which animals and plants die and decompose returns nitrogen to the soil.
what is decomposition
Phosphorus is a critical component of this molecule, often called the "energy currency" of the cell.
what is ATP
This process involves water moving through soil and into plant roots.
what is absortion
this is the type of bond between hydrogen and oxygen within a water molecule
what is a covalent bond
This type of bond forms between carbon atoms in organic molecules
what is an covalent bond
This process converts ammonia into nitrite and then nitrate, making nitrogen available to plants.
What is nitrification?
This nucleic acid, containing phosphorus, stores genetic information in cells.
what is DNA
These building blocks, made mostly of carbon, make up proteins.
what is amino acids
This cell organelle is filled with water and helps maintain cell shape in plant cells.
what is the vacuole
This type of rock, formed from ancient marine organisms, stores large amounts of carbon.
what is limestone
Nitrogen makes up about this percentage of Earth’s atmosphere.
what is 78%
Phosphorus is essential in the structure of this part of cell membranes, made of lipid molecules.
What is the phospholipid bilayer?
This carbon-rich molecule provides immediate energy for cellular activities in living organisms.
what is glucose
This type of bond forms between water molecules, giving water its unique properties
what is a hydrogen bond
This is the number of covalent bonds that a single carbon atom can form.
what is four
This macromolecule, essential for life, contains nitrogen and forms structures like hair, muscles, and enzymes.
what is protein
Unlike nitrogen and carbon, phosphorus does not cycle through this part of the environment.
what is the atmosphere
This process allows water to move from an area of high concentration to low concentration through a semipermeable membrane.
what is osmosis
Water is described as this type of solvent because it can dissolve many polar and ionic substances.
what is the universal solvent
The release of stored carbon from burning fossil fuels is called this.
what is combustion
This is the molecular formula for atmospheric nitrogen
What is N₂?
what is phosphorus' atomic number
what is 15
The study of carbon-containing compounds, both natural and synthetic, falls under this branch of chemistry
what is organic chemistry