Elemental cycles

Question 1

Hydrologic cycle

Answer 1

moves water around

Question 2

Evaporation

Answer 2

Heat from the sun causes water to evaporate from bodies of water and soil

Question 3

Transpiration

Answer 3

Photosynthesis releases water from leaves

Question 4

Precipitation

Answer 4

Water vapor cools and forms clouds and rains

Question 5

Percolation

Answer 5

Water moving between soil particles to groundwater

Question 6

Runoff

Answer 6

Water can travel to bodies of water

Question 7

Why is the hydrologic cycle important?

Answer 7

It can move many nutrients through the water

Question 8

Carbon cycle

Answer 8

the movement of carbon through the biosphere

Question 9

Photosynthesis

Answer 9

Producers take in carbon and spit out oxygen

Question 10

Respiration

Answer 10

Animals take in oxygen and spit out carbon

Question 11

Exchange

Answer 11

Carbon is exchanged from the atmosphere to the water

Question 12

Sedimentation

Answer 12

Carbon will combine with calcium ions from the ocean and form CaCO3 that turns into rock

Question 13

Burial

Answer 13

Organisms that havent fully decomposed will be trapped inside rock and be fossilized

Question 14

Combustion

Answer 14

Volcanoes or burning of fossil fuels releases CO2

Question 15

Extraction

Answer 15

Humans dig for fossil fuels

Question 16

Nitrogen cycle

Answer 16

the movement of nitrogen throughout the biosphere

Question 17

Nitrogen fixation

Answer 17

Nitrogen gas is converted into ammonia, which is usable nitrogen

Question 18

Abiotic fixation

Answer 18

Lightening

Question 19

Biotic fixation

Answer 19

Bacteria that live in legume roots or cyanobacteria can convert nitrogen gas into ammonia

Question 20

Nitrification

Answer 20

Conversion of ammonium to nitrate

Question 21

Assimilation

Answer 21

Producers incorporate nitrogen and nitrogen compounds into their tissue

Question 22

Mineralization

Answer 22

Converting organic nitrogenous material (dead stuff) into inorganic nitrogenous material (ammonium). Producers take up ammonium or ammonium goes through nitrification

Question 23

Denitrification

Answer 23

The conversion of nitrate to nitrogen gas through anaerobic bacteria

Question 24

Phosphorous cycle

Answer 24

The movement of phosphorous throughout the biosphere

Question 25

Assimilzation

Answer 25

Producers take up phosphate and incorporate it into their tissues

Question 26

Mineralization

Answer 26

When producers die, organic phosphorous turns into inorganic phosphate

Question 27

Sedimentation

Answer 27

Phosphorous is a precipitate of water that comes out as phosphate sediments

Question 28

Geologic uplift

Answer 28

Phosphate sediments can be risen by geologic forces into mountains

Question 29

Weathering

Answer 29

Mountains go through weathering and phosphorous is drained into soil

Question 30

Where is phosphate found?

Answer 30

In fertilizer

Question 31

Algal bloom

Answer 31

is the result of leaching of phosphate from fertilizer into bodies of water, causes a lot of algae to bloom which takes up a lot of oxygen

Question 32

Hypoxic

Answer 32

Too little oxygen

Question 33

Dead zone

Answer 33

hypoxic water results in animals not being able to sustain and then they all die

Question 34

Sulfur cycle

Answer 34

The movement of sulfur throughout the biosphere

Question 35

Weathering

Answer 35

Sulfur exists in rocks and goes through weathering, which causes sulfur to leach into soil

Question 36

Acid rain

Answer 36

too much sulfur in water