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Cycles-Ana
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Evaporation | When water changes from a liquid to a gas due to increased heat |
| Law of Conservation of Mass/Matter | The mass in an isolated system can neither be created nor be destroyed but can be transformed from one form to another |
| Law of Conservation of Energy | energy is neither created nor destroyed. |
| Transpiration | the process by which plants give off water vapor through the stomata in their leaves. |
| precipitation | any liquid or frozen water that forms in the atmosphere and falls back to the earth. |
| Groundwater | water that exists underground in saturated zones beneath the land surface. |
| Runoff | occurs when there is more water than land can absorb. |
| Biotic Factor | a living organism that shapes its environment. |
| abiotic factor | a non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment. |
| biosphere | the region on, above, and below the Earth's surface where life exists. |
| producer | an organism that creates its own food or energy |
| consumer | an organism that cannot produce its own food and must eat other plants and/or animals to get energy. |
| condensation | the process where water vapor becomes liquid. I |
| water cycle | the continuous movement of water within the Earth and atmosphere |
| carbon cycle | the process that moves carbon between plants, animals, and microbes; minerals in the earth; and the atmosphere. |
| nitrogen cycle | a repeating cycle of processes during which nitrogen moves through both living and non-living things |
| oxygen cycle | the movement of oxygen through the atmosphere (air), biosphere (plants and animals) and the lithosphere (the Earth's crust). |
| deforestation | the purposeful clearing of forested land. |
| cellular respiration | the process by which cells derive energy from glucose |
| photosynthesis | the process by which plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to create oxygen and energy in the form of sugar. |
| fossil fuels | An energy source formed in the Earth's crust from decayed organic material. |
| nitrogen fixation | the changing of free nitrogen in the air into a combined form (as ammonia) especially by bacteria in the soil and in roots |
| ammonification | the process of converting natural nitrogen compounds into ammonia. |
| interconnected | mutually joined or related |
| organism | An organism is defined as any living thing. |
| denitrification | the loss or removal of nitrogen or nitrogen compounds. |
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