What Makes You Alive
All living things must be made of _____.
What are cells?
One individual cat is a(n) ________.
What is an organism?
Step in the water cycle in which the sun heats liquid water and it rises to the atmosphere.
What is evaporation?
The step of the carbon cycle we as humans most directly participate in on a daily basis.
Abiotic or Biotic: A Flower
What is biotic?
An organism that is able to adapt to its environment has developed a(n) _________.
What is adaptation?
Our planet and everything on it is the ________.
What is the biosphere?
Step in the water cycle in which water condenses into clouds before precipitating again.
What is condensation?
The step of the carbon cycle plants most directly participate in.
What is photosynthesis?
Abiotic or Biotic: Sunlight
What is abiotic?
A sunflower turning to face the sun is an example of this criteria for life.
What is response to stimuli?
The grasslands, tundra, desert, and rainforest are all examples of _____.
What are biomes?
Step in the water cycle in which water rises back into the atmosphere from plants.
What is transpiration?
The step of the carbon cycle in which fossil fuels are burned and release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
What is combustion?
The organism required for each stage of the nitrogen cycle to occur.
What is bacteria?
DNA and RNA are examples of this criteria of life.
What is genetic material?
All of the fish, crabs, and seaweed that live in a specific coral reef make up a ______.
What is a community?
Deforestation, cutting down massive amounts of trees, most directly effects this step in the water cycle.
What is transpiration?
Humans increase the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere when we drive cars through the process of ___________.
What is combustion?
The name for the type of organisms that return carbon and nitrogen to the soil from dead material.
What are decomposers?
When you eat food to obtain energy, you are demonstrating this criteria for life.
What is metabolism?
All the fish, crabs, and seaweed that live in a coral reef together, as well as the sand and rock in this same area make up an ________.
What is an ecosystem?
Paving, laying cement, over soil to create a new shopping center most directly effects these TWO steps in the water cycle.
What are runoff and infiltration?
This gas, in our atmosphere, is decreased as plants carry out photosynthesis.
What is carbon dioxide?
Step in the nitrogen cycle in which bacteria "fix" nitrogen from the air or water into a form plants can use.
What is nitrogen fixation?