Water Cycle
Change of water from vapor to liquid
What is condensation?
Why is the carbon cycle important to living things?
What is it transports a material needed by all living things.
What is lightning?
*/9A* lichen is this type of organism.
What is a pioneer species?
A mature community is made up of these
What are well-adapted organisms?
What percentage of the Earth's water is usable by humans?
What is o.3%?
The process does not release carbon dioxide into the environment: combustion, respiration, photosynthesis or decomposition.
What is photosynthesis?
Why is nitrogen important to living things?
What is it builds new cells?
The second stage of begins with the introduction of this specific organism
What are lichens?
What are weeds?
What happens to most of the precipitation that falls to the Earth's surface?
What is falls directly into the oceans?
Carbon from the environment becomes a part of living organisms through this.
What is photosynthesis?
The important function bacteria perform in the soil.
What is nitrogen fixation?
True or False: Mosses can break down rock into smaller pieces.
False
A desert that contains plants and animals that have been there for a long time is an example of this.
What is a mature community?
Water helps regulate body temperature through perspiration and this.
What is evaporation?
Molecules that contain carbon are referred to as ________ molecules.
What are organic molecules?
What substance must be chemically transformed before it can be used by plants?
Volcanoes and glaciers create _____ ________.
What is bare rock (or new earth)?
Another name for Stage 6.
What is the Climax Stage?
The process in which plants release a large amount of water vapor.
What is transpiration?
What is combustion?
The form of nitrogen that plants need.
What are nitrates?
The three types of things that appear in the 3rd stage of Primary Succession
What are grasses, insects and small rodents (small animals)?
This process is slower than Primary Succession. True or False