Hydrologic Cycle
1: What are Biogeochemical Cycles?
>pathways for molecules to move through the Earth
2: What is a Reservoir of water?
>Place where water is held
3: What is Precipitation? Name a few types:
>Rain, Hail, Snow
when water being held in the atmosphere condenses
4: What is Evaporation? Where does most of evaporation take place on Earth?
>When water is changed from a liquid to a gas. It mostly takes place over the ocean
Sublimation?
>Solid --> Gas
Deposition?
>Gas --> Solid
5: What is Condensation?
>When air vapor rises and condenses and cools
6: What is Runoff? Where does it ultimately end up? (Most of it)
>When water is pulled across the ground to its lower point
7: Why are oceans salty?
>Water going to the ocean erodes minerals from the ground
8: What are the 3 ways that the human body loses water?
>Evaporation, Exhaling, Peeing
9: What is evapotranspiration?
>sum of evaporation and plant transpiration from the Earth's land and Ocean surface to the atmosphere
10: Diagram the Water Cycle (Hydrologic):
>pathways for molecules to move through the Earth
2: What is a Reservoir of water?
>Place where water is held
3: What is Precipitation? Name a few types:
>Rain, Hail, Snow
when water being held in the atmosphere condenses
4: What is Evaporation? Where does most of evaporation take place on Earth?
>When water is changed from a liquid to a gas. It mostly takes place over the ocean
Sublimation?
>Solid --> Gas
Deposition?
>Gas --> Solid
5: What is Condensation?
>When air vapor rises and condenses and cools
6: What is Runoff? Where does it ultimately end up? (Most of it)
>When water is pulled across the ground to its lower point
7: Why are oceans salty?
>Water going to the ocean erodes minerals from the ground
8: What are the 3 ways that the human body loses water?
>Evaporation, Exhaling, Peeing
9: What is evapotranspiration?
>sum of evaporation and plant transpiration from the Earth's land and Ocean surface to the atmosphere
10: Diagram the Water Cycle (Hydrologic):
Carbon Cycle
1: All living things require what to create their bodies?
>carbon
2: What percentage of the human body is Carbon?
>12.5%
3: How are plants involved in the Carbon Cycle? What happens to the Carbon?- how does it get
back to the environment?
>Plants need Carbon to photosynthesis then release it back out during there respiration cycle
4: What happens to Carbon in the ocean? How does it get there? Where does it go?
>Carbon dissolves really easily and is used by phytoplankton
5: What are shells made of? What happens when they fall to the bottom of the ocean?
>Carbon. They pile up and become compressed into rocks
6: What happens to Limestone when it is dissolved in water?
>When limestone is dissolved it becomes carbon
7: What is happening with the excess Carbon in the atmosphere? Why is it important that some
of the Carbon remains locked in the ground or in ice (glaciers, permafrost)?
>Causes global climate change because it traps the heat from the sun
8: What is positive feedback loop? Hint: What is happening with global warming?
>Climate Warms --> We need more energy to cool down ---> The energy we use it releasing carbon ---> Causes the climate to warm --^
9: Diagram the Carbon Cycle below:
>carbon
2: What percentage of the human body is Carbon?
>12.5%
3: How are plants involved in the Carbon Cycle? What happens to the Carbon?- how does it get
back to the environment?
>Plants need Carbon to photosynthesis then release it back out during there respiration cycle
4: What happens to Carbon in the ocean? How does it get there? Where does it go?
>Carbon dissolves really easily and is used by phytoplankton
5: What are shells made of? What happens when they fall to the bottom of the ocean?
>Carbon. They pile up and become compressed into rocks
6: What happens to Limestone when it is dissolved in water?
>When limestone is dissolved it becomes carbon
7: What is happening with the excess Carbon in the atmosphere? Why is it important that some
of the Carbon remains locked in the ground or in ice (glaciers, permafrost)?
>Causes global climate change because it traps the heat from the sun
8: What is positive feedback loop? Hint: What is happening with global warming?
>Climate Warms --> We need more energy to cool down ---> The energy we use it releasing carbon ---> Causes the climate to warm --^
9: Diagram the Carbon Cycle below: