Water Cycle
Part of the cycle also known as rain.
What is precipitation?
Bacteria convert nitrogen into ammonia.
What is nitrogen fixation?
Phosphorous in the ground.
What is ground phosphorous?
Part of the cycle involving animals breathing.
What is respiration?
Surface of ocean warms up, some water turns to water vapor.
What is evaporation?
Ammonia is converted first into nitrite and then to nitrate.
What is nitrification?
Phosphorous is found in these.
What are rocks?
Plants take up atmospheric carbon during this.
What is photosynthesis?
Water vapor in the air accumulates into clouds.
Plants absorb ammonia and nitrate.
What is assimilation?
Rocks break down.
What is adsorption?
The name for carbon underground.
What are fossil fuels?
Plants take up water from the soil and release it into the air as water vapor.
What is transpiration?
Bacteria converts nitrogen nutrients back into ammonia.
What is ammonification?
Dust landing on the soil.
What is deposition?
Uptake of carbon dioxide and release of oxygen in the chloroplast of a plant cell to create sugar.
What is the Calvin cycle?
Water being absorbed into the ground is ____, water sliding down to lakes and rivers is____.
What are infiltration and run-off?
Bacteria converts the ammonia back into nitrogen gas.
What is denitrification?
Phosphorous is released by animals.
What is excretion/death?
Uptake of oxygen and release of water and carbon dioxide to process sugar in the mitochondria of animal cells.
What is the Kreb cycle?