Global Climate Change
Average weather conditions for a region year after year
What is Climate?
The four types of precipitation
What are rain, snow, sleet and hail?
Plant roots, ocean, or natural environment that has the ability to absorb carbon?
What are Carbon Sinks?
The organisms that drives the Nitrogen Cycle
What are bacteria?
Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria
Sediment, Weathering, Geologic Uplift, Assimilation, & Mineralization
What are the steps of the Phosphorus Cycle
Computer models that are used to forecast the weather
What are Global Climate Models?
The two ways that water rises into the atmosphere
What are evaporation and transpiration?
These animals are responsible for decomposition
What are fungi and bacteria?
The process of plants adding nitrates into their tissues.
What is assimilation?
Found in households materials or items
What are phosphates?
Sea levels rises causing saltwater to move onto land.
What is saltwater intrusion?
The scientific name for the water cycle
What is the Hydrologic cycle?
This occurs in all plants and animals breathe.
What is respiration or exhaling?
The definition of Denitrification
What is the converting of nitrate to nitrogen gas?
Causes phosphorus minerals to enter the soil and water?
What is weathering?
The long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns.
What is climate change?
The effect of condensation
What are the formation of clouds and the cooling of temperature
Carbon is released from the soil into the Atmosphere by what?
What is the burning of fossil fuels?
Converting nitrogen gas to ammonia
What is Nitrogen fixation?
The way in which phosphorus is returned to the soil.
What are decomposers?
Gases in the atmosphere that causes the greenhouse effect.
What are greenhouse gases?
The underground lake/rivers.
What are aquifers?
Coal, oil, natural gas
What are fossil fuels?
The process of nitrogen moving from plants & animals back into the soil by the breakdown of decomposers.
What is Ammonification?
What are Producers?