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nitrogen fixiation
what is the conversion of nitrogen gas into ammonia
what are nutrients?
what are matter that require for their life processes?
transpiration, what is it?
the release of water vapor by plants through their leaves?
what is the core?
what is beneath the earths mantle
what is the biosphere
what consists of all the planets living and nonliving parts of the environment?
what is consumer
what is an animal that must eat other organisms to obtain nutrients
what are aquifers
layers of rock and soil
what is evaporation?
what is the change of a liquid to a gas?
what is the mantle
what is a layer of very hot but mostly solid rock?
what is the lithosphere?
what is the hard rock on and just below earth's surface?
what is an organism that breaks down wastes and other dead organisms
what is ground water
what is fresh water from underground
what is deposition?
what is the deposition of eroded soil at new location?
what is the crust
what is a thin layer of relatively cool rock on the outside layer of earth
what is the geosphere?
what is made of all the rock at and below earths surface?
what is photosynthesis
where plants or producers pull CO2 out of the air mixed with water and sunlight to make food
what is condensation
a change from a gas to a liquid
what are landforms?
what are features such as mountains or landscapes
what is the hydrosphere?
what is erosion?
what is the removal of soil by water, wind, ice, or gravity?
what is primary producers
what is where organisms, including plants and algae, that produce their own food?
what is precipitation
when water returns from the clouds
what are tectonic plates
what are plates of lithosphere?
what is the atmosphere?
what consists of all the layers of gas surrounding our planet?
what is a molecule?
what is a combination of two or more atoms of the same type or of different types joined together by covalent bonds?