Carbon Cycle
Is made by plants during photosynthesis using CO2
What is oxygen and sugar?
What 78% of our atmosphere is made of
What is nitrogen?
Where phosphorus is naturally stored
What are rocks and minerals?
What raises the ph of water in certain areas
what is acid rain?
Nutrients needed for survival
What is water, nitrogen, carbon, and phosphorus?
A natural source of atmospheric CO2
What are volcanoes?
Only these can use atmospheric nitrogen
Animals source of phosphorus
What are plants?
What components make acid rain
What are water and CO2?
What always happens to matter
What is recycled?
Huge deposits of carbon as fossil fuels
What are coal, oil, and natural gas?
These are made from nitrogen
What are proteins?
Where surplus phosphorus comes from
What are man-made fertilizers?
When water reaches turns into a gaseous state
What is evaporation?
When elements, compounds, and more are passed to other parts of the biosphere or same part of the biosphere
What is the biogeochemical cycle?
The main regulator of CO2 in the atmosphere
What is the ocean?
How nitrogen gets returned to the soil through animals
What is animal waste?
A problem in aquatic environments from runoff
What is overgrowth?
When water goes from a gaseous state to a liquid state
What is condensation?
This powers the biogeochemical cycle
What is the flow of energy?
Fossil fuels are made of this
What is decayed material?
How nitrogen gets returned to the soil through plants
What are decayed plants?
Where phosphorus runs into from rain
What are water basins?
When water falls from the sky
What is precipitation?
Chemical substances that an organism needs to sustain life
What are nutrients?