The process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water.
What is Photosynthesis
100
These contain Carbon
What are atoms?
100
This % of the earths surface is Nitrogen.
What is 78%
100
Phosphorus is made from Carbon and Nitrogen gas combining (true / false)
What is false
200
Substances such as the chemical nitrogen and phosphorus that are required by plants and animals for energy, growth, development, repair, or maintenance
What are Nutrients
200
This is where carbon is stored. (name 2)
What are vegetation on land, plants in the ocean, and in land based and marine animals?
200
Nitrogen is stored here (name 2)
What is the atmosphere, oceans, organic matter, living organisms, lakes,
200
This is where Phosphorus is stored. (name 2)
What is rocks, sediment on ocean floors.
300
The process in which soil particles and decaying organic matter accumulate in layers on the ground or at the bottom of other large bodies of water
What is Sedimentation
300
Processes that cycle carbon through the ecosystem
(name 3)
What are photosynthesis, respiration, decomposition, ocean process and volcanic eruptions?
300
Processes that cycle nitrogen through the ecosystem
(name 3)
What is nitrogen fixation, nitrification, uptake, denitrification,
300
Processes that cycle Phosphorus through the ecosystem.
What is weathering, Geological uplift?
400
The process in which nitrogen gas (N2) is ocnverted into compounds that contain nitrate (NO3-) or amonium (NH4+)
What is Nitrogen fixation
400
These human activities affect the carbon cycle.
What are Fossil fuel combustion, land clearing, and increase levels of CO2.
400
These human activities affect the nitrogen cycle.
What is clearing forests and grasslands by burning, Use of chemical fertilizers,
400
These human activities affect the Phosphorus cycle.
What is mining, leaching of industrial waste, forest clearing.
500
The process in which nitrogen is returned to the atmosphere?