vocabulary
the organisms that get their energy by eating the waste material of animals and the decaying organisms
What are decomposers
the part of a plant that takes in water and anchors it to the ground
What is the root?
where the plants get ammonia from
What is the soil?
the most abundant gas
What is nitrogen
Without ______________, living organisms would not be able to form proteins.
nitrogen
the repeated movement of nitrogen between organisms and their surroundings
What is the nitrogen cycle
the part of a plant that makes the food
What is the leaf?
where the decomposers get their food
What is waste?
what uses waste to make energy
What are decomposers
The ultimate nitrogen source for all living things is the __________________.
soil
the most abundant gas in the atmosphere
What is nitrogen
the part of the plant that holds up the leaves
What is the stem?
where animals get their nitrogen
What is plant leaves?
how animals get nitrogen
What is through eating plants?
Process by which convert ammonia and nitrates in soil back to free atmospheric nitrogen. This nitrogen returns to the air, completing the nitrogen cycle.
denitrification
the air that surrounds the earth
What is atmosphere
the part of the plant that produces the seed
What is the flower?
the part of the plant that takes in the nitrogen
What is the root?
what do the decomposers put into the soil
What is ammonia
Nitrogen makes up approximately ____% of the Earth's atmosphere.
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In a process called _____________ ______________, bacteria in the soil change nitrogen gas into ammonia (NH3) .
nitrogen fixation
structure in the leaf that takes care of photosynthesis
What is chloroplast?
where most of the nitrogen is stored
What is in the atmosphere?
the repeating of a process over and over
What is cycle
Fritz Haber developed the first practical process to convert atmospheric nitrogen gas into ammonia. Carl Bosch was able to perfect the process for large-scale industrial use. The result of their work is known as the _________________ process.
Haber-Bosch