Cycles Recycled?
Name the 3 VIP biogeochemical cycles
What is the water cycle, the carbon cycle, and the nitrogen cycle?
These 2 things are the main components of the carbon cycle
What is photosynthesis and cellular respiration?
These are 3 ways that nitrogen gas can be transformed into molecules plants can use
What is lightning, nitrogen fixation, and decaying organisms/wastes?
Another name for the lithosphere
What is Earth's crust?
As population size increases, growth rate also increases
What is exponential growth?
This cycle involves a series of interconnected pathways involving both biotic and abiotic components of the biosphere
What is the water cycle?
Chains of carbon molecules form this in many molecules
What are backbones?
Decaying organisms or wastes release nitrogen in this form
What is ammonium?
The main driving factor in the oxygen cycle
What is photosynthesis?
These 3 examples of human activities can limit the growth of populations in an ecosystem
What are pesticides, herbicides, and habitat destruction?
Chains of these molecules form the backbones of many molecules such as carbohydrates, proteins and lipids
What is carbon?
This is constantly cycling between living organisms and the atmosphere
What is carbon?
Most plants and animals cannot use the nitrogen in nitrogen gas because of this
What is breaking the triple bond of the 2 nitrogen atoms?
This is where the majority of all oxygen is located
What is the lithosphere?
These are porous layers of rock that can hold water
What is an aquifer?
This element is important for creating proteins and nucleic acids, like DNA
What is nitrogen?
True or False: Living organisms cannot make their own carbon
What is true?
Denitrification happens through the work of these organisms
What is denitrifying bacteria?
The presence of atmospheric oxygen has led to the formation of this
What is ozone?
This process returns water to the atmosphere through a plants' leaves
What is transpiration?
Process through which water or a chemical element is continuously recycled in an ecosystem and involves biotic and abiotic components
What a biogeochemical cycle?
When our cells burn food (glucose) for energy, this is released
What is carbon dioxide?
These plants are the only ones able to use nitrogen in the air to grow
What are bean plants and other legumes?
The movement of oxygen within the atmosphere, biosphere, and lithosphere
What is the oxygen cycle?
The maximum population size that can be supported in a particular area without destroying the habitat
What is carrying capacity?