Water Cycle
Four types of precipitation
What are rain, snow, sleet, hail, or freezing rain? (any 4)
These organisms can fix nitrogen into usable forms for plants.
What are Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria?
This process burns fossil fuels or trees by combining with oxygen, releasing CO2.
What is combustion?
These organisms can recycle the matter of dead organisms or waste.
What are decomposers?
When liquid turns into a gas. In the water cycle the sun gives the energy to do this.
What is evaporation?
This is one of the things organisms use Nitrogen to build in their bodies.
What is: amino acids/proteins or nucleic acids/DNA/RNA?
Carbon can get stored underground for long periods of time when living things are decomposed to these.
What are fossil fuels (or coal, oil, and natural gas)?
(True/False) Animals absorb nitrogen through eating plants.
What is true?
When vapor cools and turns into a liquid by sticking to something. This happens when water sticks to dust to make clouds.
What is condensation?
The way Nitrogen is fixed other than Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria.
What are lightning?
This is how you get your carbon.
What is consuption/eating?
When snow flakes sublimate before hitting the ground.
The largest fresh H2O source resevoir on earth.
What is ice (glaciers/polar ice caps)?
One of the types of fixed nitrogen (a molecule) usable by plants.
What is: Nitrites, Nitrates, or Ammonia? (name one)
Name two Carbon sinks in the present day.
What are (name 2):
ocean sediment, atmosphere, surface ocean, deep ocean
Their decomposition depletes the water of oxygen.
The process of water evaporating by going through a plant.
What is transpiration?
These types of plants have a symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing bacteria in their roots. They include peas and beans.
What are legumes?
Carbon dioxide can be returned to the atmosphere though these two processes.
What are combustion and respiration?
What are nutrients? or What is nitrogen (or phosphorus)?