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Carbon Cycle
Water Cycle
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Plants use what to make their food
What is CO2
100
The process where water turns from a liquid to a gas or vapor
What is evaporation
100
______________ breaks down rocks to release phosphorus
What is weathering
100
Nitrogen makes up _______________ and the bases of DNA
What is amino acids
100
a community of living organisms in conjunction with the nonliving components of their environment
What is ecosystem
200
When plants and animals die they undergo what process
What is decomposition?
200
The process in which water vapor turn into liquid water
What is condensation
200
_____________ can absorb phosphorus directly
What are plants?
200
caused by lightening strikes and symbiotic bacteria making ammonia
What is fixation
200
the variety of different types of life found on Earth and the variations within the species
What is biodiversity
300
When plants and animals die and do not decomposed properly over a very long time they become what?
What are fossil fuels?
300
Water released from clouds
What is precipitation
300
Phosphorus is one of the main components of what biological molecule
What is DNA
300
Plants take nitrogen from the soil by absorption
What is assimilation
300
Biodiversity generally tends to cluster in ____________
What are hotspots
400
Carbon is stored in the oceans as what
What is calcium carbonate
400
The downward movement of water from the land surface into soil or porous rock
What is infiltration
400
Phosphorus comes from _______________
What is rocks
400
the conversion of organic nitrogen from decomposition to ammonium
What is ammonification
400
The richness of biodiversity depends on ____________
What is the climate
500
What processes links humans and plants in the carbon cycle
What is photosynthesis and respiration
500
This water either seeps up to form springs or runs into the ocean
What is Groundwater
500
The buildup of nutrients in an environment
What is eutophication
500
converting nitrates back to nitrogen gas
What is denitrification
500
Areas undergoing ____________ are experiencing changes in theor biodiversity from low to high variations
What is sucession