Water Cycle
Water is released from the clouds that change into rain snow, hail, etc.
What is precipitation?
Natural gas such as coal or fuel?
What is fossil fuels?
The process where molecular nitrogen is converted into ammonia.
What is Nitrogen fixation?
The global temperature and weather patterns shift and change over the long term.
Global warming
This is the state of the atmosphere.
What is the weather?
The process of water turning into water vapor?
What is precipitation?
Layers of gases that cover that envelop the planet.
Atmosphere
This is the reverse of nitrogen fixation, ammonia is converted into usable nitrogen.
What is dentrification?
The three things that burning fossil fuels is mainly used for?
What is electricity, heat, and transportation?
Long-term pattern of weather in an area.
What is climate?
Water vapor turns into liquid.
What is condensation?
This is the combined mass of water found on the surface of the planet.
What is the hydrosphere?
This is nitrogen in the atmosphere.
What is ammonium?
Movement of global lithosphere plates.
What is plate techtonics?
Artificial watering of land that does not get enough water through rainfall.
What is Irrigation?
Evaporation of water through plants.
What is transpiration?
This activity from humans has thrown the carbon cycle off balance.
What is the burning of fossil fuels?
Atmospheric nitrogen is assimilated into organic compounds.
What is fixation?
This is the trapping of gases in the Earth´s lower atmosphere which warms the Earth.
What is the greenhouse effect?
Removal of trees and forest.
Deforestation.
The flow of excess rainwater, stormwater, melted water on the ground.
What is surface runoff?
The process of carbon being captured and stored for many years is?
Carbon sequestration
This is the oxidation of ammonia to nitrite followed by the oxidation of the nitrite to nitrate.
What is nitrification?
Three effects of climate change?
What are rising sea levels, melting glaciers, and changes in flower and plant blooming times?
Breaking down of rock soil and minerals through contact with Earth´s atmosphere.
Weathering.