Water Cycle
Mix
Carbon Cycle
Soil
Nitrogen Cycle
100
The processes of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation make up the what cycle.
What is the water cycle?
100
water goes through the water cycle again and again, the amount of water on Earth _______.
What is stays the same
100
This process includes plants making food.
What is photosynthesis
100

this add nutrients to the soil

What is Humus?

100

Plants and animals need this element to make proteins.

What is nitrogen?

200
When water turns into a gas, which happens when the sun is involve..
What is evaporation?
200

This is a measure of how well the soil supports plant growth.

What is soil fertility?

200
This gas is taken in by plants to make food
What is carbon dioxide
200
When soil has a lot of these particles it holds onto too much water
What is silt or clay?
200

True or False? Animals absorb nitrogen through eating plants.

What is true?

300
When water vapor rises higher in the atmosphere and cools down.
What is condensation?
300
The water cycle begins with
What is trick question, it doesn't begin.
300
The carbon that goes to plants comes from this.
What is atsmosphere
300
this is the layer of solid rock beneath the soil horizons

What is bedrock?

300

burning of fossil fuels release nitrous oxide into the air that can lead to increased levels of this

What is acid rain?

400
Is the name of this where snow,sleet, rain, or hail form and fall to the ground.
What is the precipation?
400

this is one soil conservation technique farmers use is planting different crops in a field each year

What is crop rotation

400
When ___ dies decomposers return carbon to the soil.
What is organisms?
400

These organisms break down the remains of dead organisms and return carbon and nitrogen to the soil

What are decomposers?

400

True or False: Plants take in nitrogen compounds from the air to create sugars?

What is false?

500

These are all the processes that are involved in the water cycle.

What is condensation, evaporation, and precipitation, runoff, transpiration, respiration.

500

This is one of earth's most valuable natural resources, and is required for all things that live on land.

What is soil?

500
Animals exhale water vapor and carbon dioxide in this process

What is respiration?

500

This soil horizon consists of clay and other particles of rock, but little humus

What is Horizon B or Subsoil?

500

Plants get nitrogen this way.

What is through their roots from specialized bacteria