Water Cycle
The way water falls to the earth.
What is precipitation?
The percentage of nitrogen gas in the atmosphere.
What is 78%?
What too much CO2 in the atmosphere can be responsible for.
What is the greenhouse effect?
Not found in the free state in nature, rather contained in rocks and minerals.
What is phosphorous?
The place where surface runoff leads to.
What is the role of bodies of water?
The three factors in the Nitrogen cycle.
What are biological, human, and physical/chemical?
The main regulator if CO2 due to it being easily dissolved in it.
What is the ocean?
Often caused by too much phosphorous in water.
What is overgrowth?
Water that seeps into the ground.
What is groundwater?
Created when animal waste decays due to bacteria.
What is ammonia?
Carbon dioxide + Water —> Sugars + Oxygen
What is the photosynthesis equation?
The 3 factors in the phosphorus cycle.
What are biological, human, and geological?
What condensed, evaporated water in the atmosphere turn into.
What are clouds?
A bacteria in the soil that can break down ammonia into the gas form of nitrogen.
What is dentrification bacteria?
The reason that more CO2 is released in the atmosphere.
What are volcanoes?
A place where phosphorous in soils can be washed into.
What are water basins?
How groundwater is taken up.
What are plants?
Done by human activity, can sometimes be harmful.
What are fertilizers?
The 4 factors in the carbon cycle.
What are biological, human, geological, and physical/chemical?
How sulfur is returned to the soil.
What is animal waste.