What is the process of cutting down forests and releasing CO2 through combustion of the trees?
100
Lewis Dot Diagrams show valence electrons.
What do Lewis Dot Diagrams show?
100
It is the water on Earth in all phases;solid,liquid and gas.
What is the Hydrosphere?
100
A positive feedback loop is when something happens that causes the same thing to happen again and again, making it stronger at each step.
What is a Positive Feedback Loop?
100
It is found in all living things;plants and animals.
Where is Nitrogen found?
200
All spheres have carbon in them; Atmosphere, Biosphere, Hydrosphere and Geosphere.
What spheres have carbon in them?
200
An ion is a charged atom.
What is an ion?
200
A blanket of gases that surrounds the entire Earth extending to the edge of space.
What is the Atmosphere?
200
An example of a Positive Feedback Loop is a game of Rugby. If you score once, you get the ball once again and again each time you score.
What is an example of a Positive Feedback Loop?
200
They get the Nitrogen by eating plants or other animals that the Nitrogen contains in.
How do animals get Nitrogen?
300
Plants absorb sunlight and CO2 from the Atmosphere to make sugars.
What is photosynthesis?
300
An Ionic Bond is a particle with a negative charge that will attract with a particle with a positive charge.
What is an Ionic Bond formation?
300
Material that makes up Earth's surface interior and ocean basins.
What is the Geosphere?
300
A Negative Feedback Loop is the complete opposite of a Positive Feedback Loop. It makes it harder for the same thing to happen again.
What is a Negative Feedback Loop?
300
A Dead Zone is an area in the ocean where animals can not survive due to the lack of oxygen.
What is a Dead Zone?
400
Over millions and millions of years, heat and pressure can transform decayed plant material into fossil fuels including coal, oil and natural gas.
What are Fossil Fuels?
400
An Ionic Bond forms when electrons are transferred from one atom to another which creates a new substance.
How do Ionic Bonds form?
400
Includes all living things; any size, any habitat.
What is the Biosphere?
400
An example of a Negative Feedback Loop is the sport of Basketball. Each time you score, you give the opposite team the ball, allowing then to get a "chance" to score.
What is an example of a Negative Feedback Loop?
400
The Atmosphere.
Where is Nitrogen stored the most?
500
Carbon Dioxide absorbs energy within the Atmosphere.
What role does Carbon Dioxide play in controlling the temperature of the Atmosphere?
500
The transfer of this many electrons takes a great deal of energy, making the electrons stable by sharing.
What do covalent electrons do?
500
There are four; Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, Geosphere, and lastly the Biosphere.
How many spheres are there?
500
Positive Feedback Loops can have something happen and then have it happen again and again. On the other hand, Negative Feedback Loops have something happen and then it becomes harder to happen again.
What is the difference between Positive and Negative Feedback Loops?
500
Animals and plants need Nitrogen to make protein and DNA.