Water Cycle
The sun's heat turns water into water vapor
What is evaporation?
The breaking down of rocks, soils, and minerals due to natural causes
What is weathering?
Nitrogen in living organisms breaks down and is converted to ammonium
How does decomposition work?
Weather patterns change over long periods of time
What is climate?
Trapping the sun's warmth in Earth's lower atmosphere
What is the greenhouse effect?
Evapration, condensation, precipitation, transpirtation, repeat
What is the water cycle/hydrologic cycle?
Eating incorprates carbon into living organisms
What is consumption?
Has reverse effects of nitrogen fixation
What does denitrification do?
Can people tell the climate?
Gases that absorb and emit radiant energy
What are greenhouse gases?
Gravity pulls water across the earth's surface
How do runoffs work?
Places where carbon is stored for extended periods
What are "Carbon Sinks"?
Nitrogen moves through all objects, living and non-living, over and over
How does the Nitrogen Cycle work?
Plate tectonics, the tilt of the Earth, ocean variations, etc.
Why does Climate Change happen?
The gradual increase in Earth's overall temperature
Global warming is...
Hydrogen and oxygen are combined in order to create the element H2O
What is water?
Fresh and new rock is exposed and weathered away faster than the older rocks
What happens during uplifting?
Atmospheric nitrogen is assimilated into organic compounds
What is fixation?
El niño is the pacific's warm phase while La niña is the cold phase
What is the difference between El Nino and La Nina?
Coal, crude oils, and natural gases
What are some examples of fossil fuels?
Soil in the ground freezes without a liquid state
How does sublimation work?
Burning fossil fuels to release carbon dioxide into Earth's atmosphere
What is the process of artificial combustion?
Nitrogen converted to ammonia or ammonium by bacteria
What is ammunification?
Satellites, ground radars, weather balloons, and weather stations
How is the weather determined?
The excessive nutrients in a lake, river, stream, etc.
What is eutrophication?