Vocabulary
An animal that feeds on plants
Which biological process do plants use to take in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and get energy?
What is photosynthesis
What is wrong with atmospheric nitrogen?
What is "we can't use it"
The majority of the phosphorus in the world is stored in what?
What is rocks
Water falling to the earth from condensed clouds is known as what?
What is precipitation
Organism that breaks down dead organic material
What is Decomposers
Name two ways that carbon is released into the atmosphere using biological processes?
What is cellular respiration and decomposition
Who "fixes" the nitrogen into a form that we can use?
What is bacteria (either in the soil or in the roots of legumes)
Phosphorus is used not only in energy and in cell processes (like enzymes and transport), but also in what?
What is forming DNA and RNA
Once that water falls to the other, what is it considered
What is groundwater
A model that shows the flow of energy from one trophic, or feeding, level to the next in an ecosystem
What is Energy Pyramid
Humans have contributed more carbon to the carbon cycle by doing what?
What is burning fossil fuels
Animals get most of the nitrogen they need by what?
What is "consuming plants or other animals that have the nitrogen"
What must happen to the rock in order for plants to absorb the phosphorus within them?
What is break down into soil
How does ocean/lake water return to the atmosphere?
What is evaporation
Each of several hierarchical levels in an ecosystem, comprising organisms that share the same function in the food chain and the same nutritional relationship to the primary sources of energy
What is Trophic Levels
How do herbivores and carnivores get the carbon that they need?
What is "by consuming plants and/or animals that have carbon"
Planting legumes in a field the year before a crop will do what to the productivity of your field?
What is "increase productivity because there is more nitrogen in the soil"
Herbivores and carnivores obtain phosphorus by doing what?
What is "consuming plants and/or animals that have phosphorus"
Which process within the water cycle is considered "biological"
What is transpiration
An organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide
What is Autotrophs
Why do we need carbon?
What is "to form DNA and proteins". The creation of cells is also acceptable
Nitrogen is used in the body to make what?
What is DNA and proteins
Phosphorus is returned to the rock cycle from plants and animals by what
What is "hardening into solid phosphate after being sediment"
What is "transpiration"
What is "when leaves release water through their underside to evaporate"