Jeopardy Nutrient Cycle Carbon Cycle Phosphorus Cycle Nitrogen Cycle vocabulary Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

$100 Question from Nutrient Cycle The way nutrients are cycled in the biosphere; the continuous flows of nutrients in & out of stores.

$100 Answer from Nutrient Cycle What is Nutrient cycle?

$200 Question from Nutrient Cycles The chemicals that are required for plant and animal growth and other life processes.

$200 Answer from Nutrient Cycles What are nutrients?

$300 Question from Nutrient Cycles Biotic processes such as decomposition and abiotic processes Such as river run-off can cause Nutrients to flow in and out of stores

$300 Answer from Nutrient Cycles What is the cycling of nutrients in the biosphere

$400 Question from Nutrient Cycles The carbon cycle, nitrogen cycle, And phosphate cycle move nutrients Into and out of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems

$400 Answer from Nutrient Cycles What are nutrient cycles in ecosystems

$500 Question from Nutrient Cycles Human activities such as agriculture, and land clearing can effect a nutrient cycle by increasing the amounts of nutrients in the cycle

$500 Answer from Nutrient Cycles What are the effects of human activities on nutrient cycles

$100 Question from carbon cycle The nutrient cycle in which carbon is moved through the biosphere; maintains the balance of CO2 in the atmosphere

$100 Answer from carbon cycle What is carbon cycle

$200 Question from carbon cycle Essential component in the chemical reactions that sustain Life

$200 Answer from carbon cycle What is carbon

$300 Question from carbon cycle All living things contain billions of these in their cells

$300 Answer from carbon cycle What are carbon atoms

$400 Question from carbon cycle Short term stores of carbon are found in vegetation on land

$400 Answer from carbon cycle How is carbon stored

$500 Question from carbon cycle A variety of natural processes Move carbon through the ecosystem

$500 Answer from carbon cycle How is carbon cycled through the atmosphere

$100 Question from phosphorus cycle nutrient cycle in which phosphorus is moved through the biosphere

$100 Answer from phosphorus cycle What is phosphorus cycle

$200 Question from phosphorus cycle In North America, phosphate rock is mined primarily to make commercial fertilizers and detergents such as those used in dishwashers

$200 Answer from phosphorus cycle What are human activities and the Phosphorus cycle

$300 Question from phosphorus cycle Starts its existence in the rocks Of the world

$300 Answer from phosphorus cycle What is phosphorus

$400 Question from phosphorus cycle Phosphorus is trapped in phosphate

$400 Answer from phosphorus cycle How is phosphorus stored

$500 Question from phosphorus cycle Weathering releases phosphate through the ecosystem

$500 Answer from Phosphorus Cycle How is phosphorus cycled through ecosystems

$100 Question from Nitrogen Cycle Nutrient cycle in which nitrogen is moved through the biosphere

$100 Answer from Nitrogen Cycle What is nitrogen cycle?

$200 Question from Nitrogen Cycle Certain species of bacteria, called nitrogen fixing bacteria, play a significant role in nitrogen fixation.

$200 Answer from Nitrogen Cycle What is nitrogen fixing bacteria?

$300 Question from Nitrogen Cycle Since not all plants live in association with nitrogen fixing bacteria, they must obtain nitrogen in another form.

$300 Answer from Nitrogen Cycle What is Nitrification?

$400 Question from Nitrogen Cycle The process in which nitrogen gas is converted into compounds that contain nitrate or ammonium.

$400 Answer from Nitrogen Cycle What is Nitrogen fixation?

$500 Question from Nitrogen Cycle Nitrification takes place in two stages and involves certain soil bacteria known as nitrifying bacteria.

$500 Answer from Nitrogen Cycle What is nitrifying bacteria?

$100 Question from vocabulary The process in which nitrogen is returned to the atmosphere

$100 Answer from vocabulary What is DE nitrification

$200 Question from vocabulary The process of mountain building in which Earth`s crust folds & deeply buried rock layers rise & are exposed

$200 Answer from vocabulary What is Geological uplift

$300 Question from vocabulary Nutrients that are accumulated for short or long periods of time in Earth`s atmosphere, Oceans, & land masses.

$300 Answer from vocabulary What are Stores

$400 Question from vocabulary The process by which carbon dioxide Enters the leaves of plants and reacts with water in the presence of sunlight to produce carbohydrates And oxygen

$400 Answer from vocabulary What is photosynthesis

$500 Question from vocabulary The process in which soil particles & decaying organic matter accumulate in layers on the ground or at the bottom of large bodies of water, contributing to the formation of sedimentary rock

$500 Answer from vocabulary What is Sedimentation

Final Jeopardy Like a sealed terrarium in which all nutrients and all wastes that are produced are constantly recycled within its boundaries

Final Jeopardy Answer What is the Earth’s biosphere