Name three things that increase carbon in the atmosphere.
What is factories, cars, and deforestation
100
Why does the nitrogen need to be fixed?
What is because we cannot use it as nitrogen gas.
100
The type of pollution caused by pesticides.
What is chemical pollution
100
When water rises from the ground to the sky because it is hot.
What is evaporation
200
What is infiltration?
What is when the water seeps into the ground.
200
What is the one thing that pulls carbon out of the atmosphere?
What is plants.
200
The type of organism that helps fix nitrogen.
What is bacteria.
200
When you know exactly the one place the pollution is coming from.
What is point source
200
Hail and sleet are what part of the water cycle?
What is precipitation
300
It needs to be what temperature for condensation to happen.
What is cold.
300
What happens during photosynthesis?
What is plants take carbon dioxide out of the air.
300
How do animals get nitrogen?
What is by eating plants, or animals who ate plants.
300
The type of pollution that is caused when water temperatures are increased.
What is thermal pollution.
300
When fossil fuels are burned.
What is combustion
400
What percent of the Earth's water is freshwater?
What is 2.8%
400
How are fossil fuels formed?
What is after plants and animals die, their carbon enters the ground and after millions of years with high heat and pressure, fossil fuels are formed.
400
What are the two ways that nitrogen can be fixed?
What is through lightening and nodules on plant roots.
400
The type of pollution generally caused by runoff.
What is non-point source.
400
The process by which animals release carbon dioxide.
What is respiration
500
If the water cycle is a closed system, why is it important to keep it clean?
What is the amount of water we get will never change. We will never get new water. If it gets polluted, then polluted water will just cycle over and over and over.
500
What is the consequence that increased carbon can cause on the Earth?
What is global warming.
500
What are the 3 things nitrogen changes into?
What is ammonia, nitrites, and nirates
500
An invasive species is this type of pollution.
What is ecological pollution.
500
The process by why nitrogen is converted into a form that we can use.