Earth's Oxygen Cycle
The driving force for making oxygen available for life
What is Photosynthesis?
Name of the process by which living organisms take in carbon.
What is consumption?
The process where nitrates are converted to nitrogen gas and released to the atmosphere.
What is denitrification?
The hardest material on earth
What are diamonds?
The term used for "dead zones" that have low oxygen levels.
What is hypoxic?
The process by which living organisms, including plants and animals, convert carbon into CO2 and release energy.
What is respiration?
The process by which bacteria and fungi convert nitrogen in dead plants and animals into ammonia.
What is ammonification?
The odorless, colorless gas found that humans exhale.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
The sphere that oxygen enters when it dissolves into water.
What is the hydrosphere?
The process where plants convert carbon dioxide from the atmosphere into organic matter using sunlight and water.
What is photosynthesis?
The appearance-deciding genetic item that nitrogen is crucial for the formation of.
What is Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA)?
The material used for pencil tips.
What is graphite?
The structural difference between ozone and oxygen.
What is ozone having an extra oxygen molecule?
The part of the carbon cycle where bacteria and fungi break down dead organisms and release carbon back into the atmosphere and soil.
What is decomposition?
Compounds that plants more easily absorb nitrogen through.
What are nitrates?
The liquid substance used to power vehicles.
What is gasoline?
The form that oxygen takes when entering organisms that has the following formula: C6H12O6
What are carbohydrates?
The two sources of energy for the carbon cycle.
What are solar energy & the earth's internal energy?
The industrial process by which ammonia is produced by combining nitrogen with hydrogen.
What is the Haber-Bosch process?
Carbon based fuels that come from prehistoric decomposed organisms.
What are Fossil Fuels