Biochemical cycles

Question 1

Transperation

Answer 1

Refers to water loss in plants

Question 2

Evaporation

Answer 2

Loss of water from a lake or ocean

Question 3

What is the hydrocolic cycle run by

Answer 3

Radient energy from the sun

Question 4

What is the hydroholic cycle

Answer 4

Is the water cycle

Question 5

What is a water molecule made of

Answer 5

2 H and one O

Question 6

Which side of a water molecule negative

Answer 6

Top O

Question 7

Which side of a water molecule is positive

Answer 7

The bottom H

Question 8

Why is water the universal solvent

Answer 8

When it bonds to hydrogen it enables it to disolve items easily

Question 9

What is the role of water in the biosphere

Answer 9

When water melts of rises or lowers it brinings along nutrients unlocking them and bringing them to various places.

Question 10

Why is liquid water more dense than ice

Answer 10

When water is frozen it creates a flexable and stretched bonding

Question 11

Cohesion

Answer 11

Hydrogen bonding causing water to bond to eachother

Question 12

Adhesion

Answer 12

Attraction of water molecules to other substances

Question 13

What causes water to dissolve substances

Answer 13

Hydrogen bonding

Question 14

What is the most dense form of water

Answer 14

Liquid water since when frozen its bonds start to expand

Question 15

What kind of heat capacity does water have

Answer 15

High

Question 16

What does the stomata of a plant do in the case of a drought

Answer 16

Closes and becomes less active

Question 17

What is the water cycles coloration when it comes to the other cycles

Answer 17

A big role

Question 18

Is water vapour a greenhouse gas

Answer 18

Yes

Question 19

What is a nutrient reservior

Answer 19

Biochemical cycle substances that are temporarily stored in nurtient resivors

Question 20

Rapid cycling

Answer 20

Substances that cycle between resvirors quickly

Question 21

Slow cycling

Answer 21

When susbstanes acumilate and are unavaliabe to organizums

Question 22

What are major carbon sinks on the Earth

Answer 22

Trees/ ocean

Question 23

Deforestation

Answer 23

Trees store large amounds of carbon and release it when cut

Question 24

Burning of fossil fuels

Answer 24

Releases CO2 back into the enviroment

Question 25

Agriculture

Answer 25

Have made CO2 levels rise ever since the industrial revolution

Question 26

How much does nitrogen gas make up the Earths atomosphere

Answer 26

75%

Question 27

Algal bloom

Answer 27

Overgrow of alegea created by excess phosphorus