Earth Cycles
The most important Earth cycle
What is the water cycle?
Liquid to gas
What is evaporation?
Type of bond that gives water its unique properties
What is a hydrogen bond?
This force helps hold onto the Earth's atmosphere
What is gravity?
Gas to liquid
Water sticks to itself
What is cohesion?
The amount (%) of chemical energy lost to the environment as heat
What is 90%?
What is the Sun?
Evaporation of water from leaf cuticles on plants
What is transpiration?
Water sticks to other things
What is adhesion?
Fungi are this type of consumer
What are decomposers?
What are ecosystems?
This latches onto sediment and helps remove pollutants from groundwater
What is bacteria?
The combination of cohesion and adhesion creates this property of water
What is capillary action?
This law states there is a fixed amount of water and nutrients on Earth
What is the Law of Conservation?
Life-earth-chemical cycles
The process of water becoming too heavy to hold in the atmosphere and falling back to Earth
What is precipitation?
The reason why salt dissolves in water
What is a universal solvent?
If every human ate only fruits and vegetables, they would be in this trophic level
What is the second level?