The Rock Cycle
What is the rock cycle?
The rock cycle consists of the processes by which rocks change from one form to another.
What is the carbon cycle?
It is the cycling of carbon between Earth's spheres.
What is the water Cycle?
What is the continuous movement of water between the atmosphere, the land, and the oceans.
What is the Nitrogen Cycle?
What is the circulation of nitrogen among Earth's spheres.
What are the three different classes of rocks?
What is Sedimentary, Igneous, and Metamorphic
True or false carbon is part of the fats in living things?
True.
What is the definition of transpiration in the water cycle?
When water is released into the air through the pores on plants.
What is nitrogen?
An important nutrient for all living things.
How does igneous rock form into sedimentary?
What is weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction, and cemented.
What is photosynthes?
Plants take in CO2 and release oxygen into the environment
What are the steps of the water cycle?
Evaporation, transpiration, condensation, and precipitation.
What 3 items are involved in the nitrogen cycle?
Plants, bacteria, and animals.
What are the three types of sedimentary rocks?
What is clastic, chemical, and organic.
What is CO2?
CO2 is another way of saying carbon dioxide.
What are the pathways of the water cycle?
Runoff helps all the water that did not make it to the ocean get to a larger water source so they can evaporate.
How is nitrogen released into the soil?
By animals dying and decomposers breaking it down.
What are the classes of rocks?
What is sandstone, coquina, halite, granite, basalt,gneiss, and marble.
How fast does the carbon cycles through the earth system
Both rapid and slow processes
How does the water cycle affect life on earth?
By supplying life on earth?
How does nitrogen become atmospheric nitrogen?
By bacterias in the soil changing it into atmospheric nitrogen.