Carbon Cycle 1
What is the process plants use to make sugar from CO₂?
Photosynthesis
What Is The Process that breaks down dead organisms
Decomposition
What is the Gas that makes up most of Earth’s atmosphere
Nitrogen
Liquid water turning into gas is called what?
Evaporation
True or false? Matter is created or destroyed?
True
What is the process that releases CO₂ from living things
Respiration
What is the Organisms that break down matter
Decomposers
What is the Process that turns nitrogen gas into usable forms
Nitrogen fixation
Water vapor cooling into liquid is called what?
Condensation
Matter moves through living and _____ things
Nonliving
When you burn fossil fuels, they release carbon through?
Combustion
What is the Carbon that moves from plants to animals by?
Eating
What is the Organisms that fix nitrogen
Bacteria
Water falling from clouds is called what?
Precipitation
Plants are called what?
Producers
What is the Type of gas carbon is in the atmosphere
Carbon Dioxide
What is the Carbon compound animals breathe out?
Carbon dioxide
What is the Nitrogen form plants absorb?
Nitrates
Movement of water over land is called what?
Runoff
Animals are called what?
Consumers
What is the carbon stored underground for millions of years
Fossil fuels
What is the Long-term carbon storage in reservoirs like what?
Ocean
What is the Process that returns nitrogen to the atmosphere
Denitrification
Most of the freshwater is stored where?
Glaciers
Nitrogen is needed to make what?
Proteins