Cycle 1
This continues movement of water between Earth's surface and the air, changing from liquid into gas and from gas into liquid.
What is water cycle?
when the last number of species dies.
What is extinct?
the first species to live an otherwise lifeless area
What is groundwater?
Resources that can be replaced.
What is a renewable resource?
changing liquid into gas
What is Evaporation?
when a species is in danger of becoming extinct
What is Endangered?
The group of different organisms that first inhabit an area.
What is a pioneer community?
the end product of cellular respiration.
What is carbon dioxide?
Resources that can not be replaced.
What are Non-renewable resources?
gas changing into liquid
What is Condensation?
species with low number that could become endangered
what is Threatened species?
the beginning of a new community where a community had already existed.
What is Secondary Succession?
the continual trapping of nitrogen gas into compounds in the soil and its return to the air.
What is the nitrogen cycle?
a nitrogen containing substance.
What is a Nitrite or Nitrate?
any form of water that falls from atmosphere
What is Precipitation?
the process of an ecosystem changing into a new and different
What is succession?
Lichens and plants such as mosses begin growing on the rock.
What is the first step in primary succession?
bacteria changing nitrates in the soil back to nitrogen gas.
What is dentrification?
ball like structures on the roots of legumes.
What are nodules?
precipitation that flows across the lands.
What is runoff?
begins in a community where a few if any living things exist
What is Primary succession?
The final stage of succession.
What is a climax community?
continuous exchange of carbon among living things
What is the carbon cycle?
beans, peas, and peanut plants are this type of plant.