Cycles ReQuiz
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| Draggable item | arrow_right_alt | Corresponding Item |
|---|---|---|
Precipitation | arrow_right_alt | Gravity draws water back to Earth as rain, sleet, or snow |
Transpiration | arrow_right_alt | Solar radiation changing water from a liquid to a gas |
Runoff | arrow_right_alt | Water that is lost through the leaves of plants |
Evaporation | arrow_right_alt | Water flowing from the surface of the Earth toward bodies of water |
Infiltration | arrow_right_alt | Water percolating (filtering through) from the surface through the soil to aquifers |
| Draggable item | arrow_right_alt | Corresponding Item |
|---|---|---|
Photosynthesis | arrow_right_alt | The process by with plants take in carbon dioxide and sunlight to make sugar |
Ocean Exchange | arrow_right_alt | Returns Carbon CO2 into the atmosphere and is associated with breathing out |
Atmospheric Carbon CO2 | arrow_right_alt | When dead organisms are broken down |
Combustion | arrow_right_alt | When something is burned - such as when you drive a car that runs on fossil fuels or a forest fire |
Decomposition/Decay | arrow_right_alt | The carbon that surrounds the earth |
Respiration | arrow_right_alt | Equilibrium of CO2 between the atmosphere and the ocean |
| Draggable item | arrow_right_alt | Corresponding Item |
|---|---|---|
Denitrification | arrow_right_alt | The process of plants and animals taken in nitrogen |
Nitrogen gas | arrow_right_alt | The process of converting nitrogen gas into a usable form, by either bacteria or lightning |
Assimilation | arrow_right_alt | Process where a type of bacteria, changes the useable nitrogen in the soil, back to nitrogen gas |
Nitrogen fixation | arrow_right_alt | Bacteria converting nitrogen compounds into NH3 (ammonia) or NH4+ (ammonium) |
Nitrification | arrow_right_alt | makes up about 78% of Earth's atmosphere by volume |
Ammonification | arrow_right_alt | Bacteria converting ammonia (NH3) to nitrates (NO3) and nitrites (NO2) |
| Draggable item | arrow_right_alt | Corresponding Item |
|---|---|---|
Animal consumption | arrow_right_alt | The main phosphorus reservoir |
Phosphates in water | arrow_right_alt | Water moving over rocks, washing phosphorus into rivers and streams |
Rocks and soil | arrow_right_alt | Where phosphorus mixes with oxygen to make phosphates |
Plant absorbtion | arrow_right_alt | Water containing phosphates is absorbed by plants |
Decomposition | arrow_right_alt | Plants are eaten by consumers to get the phosphate they need |
Erosion | arrow_right_alt | Phosphorus is broken down in waste and returned to water or soil |
Marine sedimentation | arrow_right_alt | Large amounts of phosphorus are carried by waterways into the ocean where it concentrates at the bottom as rocks |