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What is the elemental symbol for Nitrogen?
N
What is the process by which plants make sugar and oxygen?
Photosynthesis
What is another name for the water cycle?
Hydrologic cycle
When land plants and animals die, they eventually die and ________ to become soil.
Decompose
What are the 5 "spheres" of the earth?
Geosphere, Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, Biosphere, Cryosphere
Nitrogen is an element in one of the four ____________ cycles.
Biogeochemical
What do we call organisms that gets nutrients by eating other organisms?
Consumers
Evaporation is the change from a ______ to a ______.
liquid, gas
Phosphorus collects in ____________ at the bottom of oceans and lakes
sediments
Water can be found in some form in how many of the earths spheres?
All of them (5)
For what purpose do living things primarily need Nitrogen?
Making proteins
Which process is the opposite of photosynthesis?
Cellular respiration
What are three forms of precipitation?
Rain, snow, hail, sleet
What is phosphorus used for in the body?
DNA, RNA, ATP (for energy), cell membranes
Made up of all of the rocks, sand, and soil of the Earth
Geosphere
How do animals get all of their nitrogen?
By eating stuff
What is a result of burning fossil fuels?
High atmospheric CO2, global warming, global climate change.
The movement of water from the ground, through plants, and into the air is called _____________
Transpiration
Which biogeochemical cycle does NOT involve the atmosphere?
Phosphorus cycle
You are a part of this sphere
Biosphere
The name of the process when lightning or bacteria "break" the triple bonds within atmospheric N2
Nitrogen Fixation
Where do trees get their carbon from?
The atmosphere, CO2 gas
What is the most important attribute of water?
Hydrogen Bonds
What is the law of conservation of matter?
Matter cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed.
Consists of all of the frozen water on the planet
Cryosphere