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Cycles of matter
Abigail crook's key terms
| Definition | Term |
|---|---|
| States that matter is neither created nor destroyed during chemical or physical changes. | The Law of Conservation of Mass |
| States that energy can neither be created nor destroyed-only converted from one form of energy to another | Law of Conservation of Energy |
| The process in which producers make food and oxygen | Photosynthesis |
| The process in which producers, consumers, and decomposers convert food and oxygen to produce energy, CO2, and H2O | Cellular Respiration |
| The movement of water from the Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back in many different ways | Water Cycle |
| The process of water changing into water vapor due to the increase in heat | Evaporation |
| When plants release water vapor from their leaves | Transpiration |
| The process of rising water vapor cooling and changing into water droplets | Condensation |
| Condensation on plants and other objects in the morning even if it didn't rain | Dew |
| The process in which heavy water droplets fall to the ground in the form of rain, sleet, snow, or hail | Precipitation |
| The movement of carbon atoms through the ecosystem between living organisms and the atmosphere | The Carbon Cycle |
| The movement of oxygen atoms through the ecosystem between living organisms and the atmosphere | The Oxygen Cycle |
| The decrease in the number of producers that create oxygen | Deforestation |
| How nitrogen moves between plants, animals, bacteria, the atmosphere, and soil | The Nitrogen cycle |
| The process of changing free nitrogen gas into usable from of nitrogen compounds | Nitrogen fixation |