| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Hydrological Cycle is important because: | Water makes up over 50% of a human's body and organisms can survive for a very little time without it |
| Oxygen Cycle is important because: | Oxygen is important for cellular respiration which is key for organisms to survive |
| Carbon Cycle is important because: | carbon is key for plants to make glucose and oxygen through the process of photosynthesis. |
| Nitrogen Cycle is important because: | It makes amino acids and proteins that makes organisms bodies. |
| formula for photosynthesis | 6co2+6h2o+energy (-->) c6h12o6+6o2 |
| Photosynthesis is... | the process of producers making their own food (glucose and oxygen) from sunlight, CO2 and water |
| Formula for Cellular Respiration | c6h12o6+6o2(-->) 6co2+6h2o+energy |
| Cellular Respiration is... | the burning of food, requires oxygen and the waste product is CO2 (plants and animals, day and night) |
| Chlorophyll is... | What makes the plant green, a chemical inside the chloroplast that absorbs sunlight |
| Stomata | a pore in a producer's leaf where transpiration happens (gas exchange), surrounded by guard cells |
| Chloroplasts | Where chlorophyll is stored |
| mitochondria | (kidney beans) where glucose is burned |
| Free Nitrogen | n2, cannot be used |
| N compounds | Nitrogen combined with other elements so it can be used (fixed nitrogen) |
| Lighting does what in the Nitrogen cycle? | Fixes Nitrogen |
| Nodules | grow on the roots of legumes, filled with bacteria that fixes nitrogen |
| Denitrifying Bacteria | Turns fixed nitrogen back into free nitrogen |
| Evaporation | the process by which molecules of liquid water absorb energy and change to a gas |
| Condensation | the process by which a gas changes to liquid |
| precipitation | rain, snow, sleet, hail. Happens because water vapor condenses and the drops of water in the cloud grow larger |
| legumes | the only plants that house nodules, include clover, beans, peas, alfalfa, and peanuts |
| blue-elodea plant in the light= | blue |
| blue-elodea plant in the dark= | yellow |
| blue-snail in light | yellow |
| blue-snail in dark | yellow |
| yellow-elodea plant in light | blue |
| yellow-elodea plant in the dark | yellow |
| why do we need controls? | 1. so we can compare results 2. to show what it was that actually changed the plant. |
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