Properties of Water
The force of attraction between different kinds of molecules, such as when water sticks to another object.
What is adhesion?
The process when liquid water changes to water vapor gas.
What is evaporation?
The intake of oxygen to convert glucose to energy.
What is respiration?
This causes Nitrogen Fixation.
What is Nitrogen-fixing bacteria, plants and algae and lightning?
Where is the soil and plants?
When molecules attract to other water molecules.
What is cohesion?
When liquid water mixes with condensation nuclei?
The largest carbon sink.
What is the ocean?
Nitrogen in the air can be used by plants after this happens.
What is Nitrogen fixation?
This cycle does not go into the atmosphere.
What is the phosphorous cycle?
Water goes against gravity to climb up a tree or stem including adhesion and cohesion.
What is capillary action?
When trees release water that turns into water vapor in the atmosphere?
What is transpiration?
Carbon moves from animals and plants into the ground.
What is decomposition?
Ammonium is broken down into nitrite and nitrates in the soil.
What is Nitrification?
A chemical substance required by an organism for growth, reproduction and maintenance.
What is a nutrient?
Water has opposite charges.
What is polarity?
Another name for the water cycle.
What is Hydrologic Cycle?
Carbon that has been pushed way down in the earth for millions of years.
What are fossil fuels (oil, gas and coal)?
Bacteria turn the nitrates in the soil back into N2 which can be returned to the atmosphere.
What is Denitrification?
The continuous movement of oxygen through the biosphere beginning with photosynthesis.
What is the oxygen cycle?
What is a hydrogen bond?
What is surface tension?
Most factories burn this carbon for energy.
What is coal?
The type of plant where most nitrogen fixating bacteria live.
What are legumes?
The energy for the water, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous and oxygen cycles.
What is the Sun?