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Vocabulary
True / False
Water Cycle
Carbon Cycle
Nitrogen Cycle
100
The process by which water is heated by the sun and turns from a liquid to a gas/vapor
What is EVAPORATION
100
The water, carbon and nitrogen cycles all have clear beginnings and endings.
FALSE! Cycles in nature have no clear beginning or end…they are cycles that keep going on and on!
100
When water flows down a mountain.
What is RUNOFF
100
This is the most common molecule found in living thing. (Hint: not water)
What is CARBON
100
TRUE or FALSE: Animal Waste is part of the Nitrogen Cycle.
TRUE
200
The process by which water vapor gets cold and turns back into a liquid.
What is CONDENSATION
200
When an organism dies, combustion takes place to return nitrogen to the soil.
FALSE Decomposition takes place
200
A mixture of rain and snow forms this type of precipitation.
What is SLEET
200
The breakdown of substances into simpler molecules.
What is DECOMPOSITION
200
This type of organism is able to change nitrogen gas into forms that plants can use (nitrogen fixation).
What is BACTERIA
300
Any form of water that falls from the clouds.
What is PRECIPITATION
300
Transpiration involves bodies of water such as lakes or oceans.
FALSE
300
The change of water vapor to a liquid state.
What is CONDENSATION
300
These two things are released during the process of RESPIRATION.
What are Carbon Dioxide and Water
300
The process by which bacteria changes nitrogen gas into usable nitrogen in the soil.
What is NITROGEN FIXATION
400
When precipitation flows down from a higher point to a lower point such as lakes, rivers, or streams.
What is RUNOFF
400
Animals get carbon by eating plants that contain carbon.
TRUE
400
When water vapor is released from the leaves of plants.
What is TRANSPIRATION
400
In class, we completed a lab with a candle and a jar to show the process of what step of the Carbon Cycle?
What is COMBUSTION.
400
The two ways in which animals can consume nitrogen
What is: By eating plants By eating animals that eat plants
500
When water is stored between or within rocks.
What is GROUNDWATER
500
These are the three ways that Carbon is transferred during the Carbon Cycle.
What are DECOMPOSITION, RESPIRATION, and COMBUSTION
500
Organisms need nitrogen for these two main reasons.
What are to build proteins and DNA for new cells