These can be dug up from the ground and burned as a source of energy.

Energy is transferred between systemsm but it cannot be created or destroyed.

What is the ultimate source of energy?

When energy transfer occurs, matter less organized with time, thus the universe's energy is spead out more uniformly over time.

What is the four processes that matter and energy are exchanged in the earth systems?

Rain, snow, and hail are forms of?

The movement of water from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface and back to the atmosphere is?

Evaporation of water from plant parts is?

The origin of energy that drives the water cycle?

When the water loses energy, it __________ to form water droplets, such as those that form clouds. 

What is the gaseous form of carbon

• Which of the following is not a way in which carbon is released back into the atmosphere as CO2? A. burning of biomass fuels B. combustion of petroleum products C. photosynthesis D. respiration

What role and effect do humans have in the carbon cycle?

Where is carbon stored in the long-term cycle?

Name one carbon reservoir other than the Earth's Crust

Nitrogen is primarily found in what state of matter?

This electrical process aids in the formation of nitrates

Changes nitrogen in the soil into usable forms

What is the main reservoir of nitrogen

What is the process of chanign free nitrogen into usable forms of nitrogen 

Phosphorous is rarely a?

Water that flows over the ground into streams is known as?

All cycles of matter share this componenet except for the phosphorous cycle

How does phosphorous enter the geosphere?

How does phosphorous enter the biosphere?

Fossil Fuels

1st law of thermodynamics

The Sun

2nd law of thermodynamics

Chemical reactions, radioactive decay, growth and decay of organisms, and the radiation of energy.

Precipitation

The Water Cycle

Transpiration

The sun

Condenses

CO₂

C. photosynthesis

They release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere through respiration, through their waste, and through combustion of fossil fuels. 

In the geosphere in a rock called carbonate

Atmosphere, soil, plants, animals

Gas

Ligthning

Nitrogen fixing batceria

The atmosphere

Nitrogen Fixation

Gas

runoff or groundwater

the atmospheric component

Phosphorous enters the soil when rocks break down releasing the phosphorous, and by organism excreting their excess phosphorous

Phosphorous enters the biosphere by plants absorbing the phosphorous in the soil with their roots where the plants incorporate it into their tissues. Animals then ingest the plant.