Cycles Flashcards
Which cycle does not follow the chemical cycling?
Carbon cycle
Through what process does carbon leave the atmosphere?
Photosynthesis
What types of organisms do photosynthesis?
Plants
List the ways/ process that carbon is released back into the atmosphere
Combustion, cellular respiration, decomposition
What do all organisms do?
Cellular respiration
What do all humans do?
Combustion
What is transpiration, and what cycle is it part of?
Water is lost in plants. Water cycle
What process takes nitrogen out of the atmosphere and makes it USEABLE for autotrophs?
Nitrogen Fixation
What types of organisms do Nitrogen fixation?
Bacteria
What other organism do bacteria sometimes have associations with? What part of the organism do they live in?
Plants, they live on their roots
What type of
co-evolutionary relationship would bacteria living on a plant be?
Commensalism (+,0)
Bacteria benefits, plant is not effected
How do animals and other heterotrophs get the nitrogen and carbon they need?
They eat it
What is in the carbon oxygen cycle?
Cellular respiration, combustion, decomposition
What is in the nitrogen cycle
Decomposition, nitrogen fixation,
What is in the water cycle?
Condensation, evaporation, precipitation, transpiration