Water Cycle
A cycle through which water or a chemical element such as carbon is continuously recycled through the biotic and abiotic components in an ecosystem.
What is biogeochemical cycle?
Carbon cycles far more slowly through geological processes such as ______________. Carbon may be stored in sedimentary rock for millions of years.
What is sedimentation?
This type of plant have the ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen, due to a mutualistic symbiotic relationship with bacteria found in root nodules of these plants.
What are legumes?
This type of biomes include all the land areas on Earth where organisms live. The distinguishing features of this biome are determined mainly by climate.
Some examples include tundras, temperate forests and grasslands, chaparral, temperate and tropical deserts, and tropical forests and grasslands.
What is terrestrial biome?
Three different states of water
What is gas (water vapor), liquid (water), and solid (ice)?
a biochemical process in which cells break down glucose and oxygen to make carbon dioxide, water, and ATP for energy.
What is cellular respiration?
the process in which decomposers breakdown the remains of organisms releasing nitrogen in the form of ammonium ions (NH4).
What is ammonification?
the variety of life within a particular habitat, often measured by the number of different species.
What is biodiversity?
Part of a cycle that holds an element or water for a short period of time
What is exchange pool?
process in which cells use carbon dioxide, water, and light energy to make oxygen and glucose, an energy-storing sugar.
What is photosynthesis?
Ammonium in the soil can be turned into nitrate by a two-step process completed by two different types of bacteria. In the form of nitrate, nitrogen can be used by plants through the process of __________.
What is assimilation?
the variety of life within a particular habitat, often measured by the number of different species.
What is adaptation?
Water changes to gas by three different processes:
What is Evaporation, sublimation, and transpiration?
When volcanoes erupt, they give off this gas that is stored in the mantle.
What is carbon dioxide
the process in which nitrifying bacteria change ammonium ions (formed as a result of ammonification) into nitrites and nitrates.
What is nitrification?
state in which a plant slows down cellular activity and may shed its leaves.
What is dormancy?
Part of a cycle that holds an element or water for a long period of time
What is a reservoir?
Major reservoirs of stored carbon:
(Coach to determine answer)
process in which denitrifying bacteria convert some of the nitrates in soil (formed as a result of nitrification) back into nitrogen gas, returning it back into the atmosphere.
____________refers to the conditions of the atmosphere from day to day
What is weather?