Biogeochemical Cycles Vocab Quiz

The changes that particular elements undergo as they pass back and forth through the

various earth systems and particularly between living and nonliving matter.

• DETRITIVORES:

• GEOCHEMISTRY:

• BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES:

• CARBON CYCLE

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Organisms that feed on waste matter, breaking organic material down into inorganic

substances that then can become available to the biosphere in the form of nutrients for

plants. They are relatively complex

organisms, such as earthworms or maggots.

• LEACHING:

• DETRITIVORES:

• SEDIMENT:

• EUTROPHICATION:

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The

word is applied to most compounds containing carbon, with the exception of

carbonates (which are minerals) and oxides, such as carbon dioxide.

• SEDIMENT:

• INORGANIC

• MINERAL:

• ORGANIC:

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Material deposited at or near Earths surface from several sources, most notably

preexisting rock. The three types are: rocks, or clastic; mineral

deposits, or chemical; and organic, composed primarily of organic

material.

• ORGANIC

• MINERAL

• SEDIMENT

• SOLUBLE

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Organisms that obtain their energy from the chemical breakdown of dead organisms as

well as from animal and plant waste products. The principal forms are

bacteria and fungi

• CONSUMERS

• DETRITIVORES

• PRODUCERS

• DECOMPOSERS

A combination of all living things on Earth—plants, mammals, birds, amphibians,

reptiles, aquatic life, insects, viruses, single-cell organisms, and so on—as well as all

formerly living things that have not yet decomposed.

• BIOSPHERE:

• ATMOSPHERE:

• GEOSPHERE:

• ECOSYSTEM:

A naturally occurring, typically inorganic substance with a specific chemical

composition and a crystalline structure.

• ORGANIC

• MINERAL

• SEDIMENT

• ROCK

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Match the following

• WEATHERING

• A state of heightened biological productivity in a body of water, which is typically

  detrimental to the ecosystem in which it takes place. Can be caused by

  an excess of nitrogen or phosphorus in the form of nitrates and phosphates,.

• LEACHING

• The breakdown of rocks and minerals at or near the surface of Earth due to physical,

  chemical, or biological processes.

• DECOMPOSITION REACTION

• The interaction of plants, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores,

  decomposers, and detritivores, each of which consumes nutrients and passes it along

  to other organisms.

• EUTROPHICATION

• The removal of soil materials that are in solution or dissolved in water.

• FOOD WEB

• A chemical reaction in which a compound is broken down into simpler compounds or

  into its constituent elements.

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A set of mystical beliefs based on the idea that ordinary matter can be perfected.

Though it was a pseudo-science, (a)   , which flourished in the late Middle Ages,

was a forerunner of scientific chemistry.

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(a)   is the biological conversion of light energy (that is, electromagnetic energy) from the Sun

to chemical energy in plants.

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