The Water Cycle
The process where water in all forms fall to the earth
What is Precipitation?
What do plants create during photosynthesis?
What is Oxygen and Sugar?
Name one thing nitrogen is used by plants and animals to make?
What is proteins or DNA
One thing phosphorus needed to make
What is DNA, cell membranes, and many other membrane bound organelles?
The prefix Geo means
What is Earth?
The process that changes liquid into gas or vapor
What is Evaporation?
What do we call the process of animals releasing CO2?
What is (cellular) respiration?
Who is the best science teacher in the universe?
Bill nye
What is absorbed into organisms
What is phosphorus?
The process of capture and conversion of nitrogen into a form that is usable by plants.
What is Nitrogen fixation?
The process where water vapor comes together forming liquid water
What is Condensation?
Burning fossil fuels adds ______ to the atmosphere
What is carbon
What is the process of removing nitrogen and turning it back into nitrogen gas
This is contained inside the waste of an organism
What is phosphorus?
The exchange of matter through the biosphere
What is Biogeochemical cycle?
Which four things make up the water cycle?
What is Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation, and Transpiration?
What do we call fuels made out of fossilized carbon?
What is fossil fuels
This organism converts nitrogen gas into a useable form of nitrogen
What is Bacteria
What is it enters the water?
A chemical substance that an organism must obtain from its environment to sustain life and to undergo life processes
What is Nutrient?
The release of water through a plant or a leaf
What is transpiration?
What 3 things does a plant need to complete photosynthesis
Sunlight, Water, and CO2
Where do the decomposing plants, animals and waste return nitrogen to
What is Soil?
When an organism or waste decomposes locked in sediments what is it turned back into
What is it turns back into rock?
Process in which fixed nitrogen compounds are converted back into nitrogen gas and returned to the atmosphere.
What is Denitrification?