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Nitrogen Cycle
Carbon Cycle
Water Cycle
Rock Cycle
Phosphorus Cycle
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What is the process used for industrial nitrogen fixation called?
The Haber-Bosch Process
100
True or false Carbon is required for all life.
True
100
Name 3 processes of the water cycle.
Evaporation, condensation, precipitation, infiltration, runoff.
100
The rock cycle is a fundamental concept of what scientific discipline?
Geology.
100
The Phosphorus cycle does not play a big role in the atmosphere. True or False?
True.
200
What percentage of the atmosphere is nitrogen?
79%
200
Humans emit carbon into the atmosphere by doing what?
Burning fossil fuels.
200
What is residence time?
Residence time is average age of water in a certain reservoir(How long it has been there).
200
What are the three main stages of the rock cycle?
Metamorphic, Sedimentary, and Igneous.
300
What is the instantaneous way in which nitrogen can be fixed?
Lightning strikes.
300
__________ are the foremost carbon sinks of the world.
Forests.
300
What is Evaporation?
Evaporation is the transformation of water from liquid to gas as it moves from the ground or bodies of water into the overlying atmosphere.
300
What things under the earth drive the rock cycle?
Tectonic Plates.
300
80 percent of all mined phosphorus is used to make what?
Fertilizer.
400
Nitrogen(N2) in the atmosphere is converted to what for the first stage of fixation?
Ammonia (NH4)
400
Carbon exists in two main forms on our planet. The are?
Carbon Dioxide and Methane.
400
What is Sublimation?
The state change directly from solid to gas.
400
Magma that cools rapidly while being on the Earth's surface(exposed to the atmosphere) is called?
Extrusive or Volcanic rock.
400
How does Phosphorus occur naturally? (Chemical equation)
PO4^3- (phosphate ion)
500
What is the name of the bacteria present in the roots of Legume plants? hint: It is the main natural process for nitrogen fixation.
Rhizobium.
500
Carbon leaves the atmosphere through what plant process?
Cellular Respiration
500
What is Infiltration(in the water cycle, duh!).
Infiltration is the flow of water from the ground surface into the ground.
500
Rock exposed to high temperatures and pressures which then form are called...
Metamorphic rock.
500
Human interation has lead to increased amount of phosphorus as a pollutant in bodies of water. This can lead to what?
Eutrophication.