Cell Respiration
This three letter acronym is also known as the "energy molecule," and it is the main product of cellular respiration.
What is ATP?
This Gas, found in our atmosphere, is the main source of Carbon used to create sugars during photosynthesis.
What is Carbon Dioxide? (CO2)
This step of the carbon cycle, primarily done by plants, involves converting CO2 from the atmosphere into sugars.
What is photosynthesis?
This element is most commonly found as a gas, and makes up the majority of our atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen Gas?
True or false: A day on Venus is longer than a year on venus.
True! Venus takes more time to spin in a circle than it does to orbit the sun.
This is the molecule that is broken down in order to produce energy during cellular respiration.
What is sugar/glucose/C6H12O6?
This gas is produced as a biproduct of photosynthesis, allowing animals to breathe
What is Oxygen? (O2)
This step of the Carbon cycle, done by all living things, involves converting sugars into CO2 and getting energy for cells in the process.
What is cellular respiration?
This step of the Nitrogen Cycle involves organisms like mushrooms and bacteria pulling nitrogen from the atmosphere and transforming it into usable molecules in the soil.
What is nitrogen fixation?
True or false: Octopuses, much like humans, have a singular central heart which pumps red blood to its extremities.
False! Octopuses actually have blue blood and three hearts instead of one. They also have 9 brains! 1 central brain, and a miniature brain in each arm
This liquid is produced during cellular respiration, but is not used by the cell directly.
What is water? (H2O)
(1) This liquid is absorbed by plants in order to produce (2) this molecule for energy during photosynthesis
What are water and glucose?
This step of the carbon cycle occurs when organic matter like vegetation or fossil fuels is burned. It returns CO2 to the atmosphere.
What is combustion?
This step of the nitrogen cycle occurs when plants absorb usable nitrogen compounds in the soil and use them for cell processes.
What is assimilation?
A neutron star is a star that has collapsed in on itself, making it incredibly dense. How heavy would 1 teaspoon of neutron star material weigh on earth?
a. 50 lbs
b. 500 lbs
c. 50,000 lbs
d. 6 billion tons
d. 6 billion tons
(1) this gas is an input for cellular respiration, (2) which produces this gas
What are Oxygen (1) and Carbon Dioxide? (2)
This is the chemical formula for glucose
What is C6H12O6?
This step of the carbon cycle occurs when organic matter is trapped under layers of sediments for thousands of years, storing carbon in compounds buried in the earth
What is fossilization?
During this step of the nitrogen cycle, nitrogen gas is returned to the atmosphere.
What is denitrification?
What percentage of the light spectrum can humans see?
a. 0.0035%
b. 3.53%
c. 35.32%
d. 50%
a. 0.0035%
This is the complete, balanced, chemical equation for photosynthesis.
What is 6O2 + C6H12O6 => 6CO2 + 6H2O + ATP
This is the complete, balanced, chemical formula for photosynthesis.
What is 6CO2 + 6H2O + Sunlight => C6H12O6 + O2
These two steps of the carbon cycle occur when (1) organisms consume other organisms and (2) eventually die, allowing their organic matter to break down into CO2 gas.
What are (1) consumption/feeding and (2) decomposition?
These two steps of the nitrogen cycle involve (1) breaking organic matter down into ammonia and (2) converting that ammonia into nitrates and nitrites.
What are Ammonification and nitrification?
A light-year is...
a. the amount of time that it takes for light to reach earth from the sun
b. the distance that light travels in 1 year
c. the amount of time that it takes for light to reach earth from the andromeda galaxy
d. the distance that can be covered by a vehicle using the energy needed to power a lightbulb for 1 year.
b. the distance that light travels in 1 year (5.879x10^12 miles)