Crash Course: Hydrologic and Carbon Cycles Guided Viewing Worksheet
1: What are Biogeochemical Cycles?
Biogeochemical cycle, any of the natural circulation pathways of the essential elements of living matter. These elements in various forms flow from the nonliving (abiotic) to the living (biotic) components of the biosphere and back to the nonliving again. In order for the living components of a major ecosystem (e.g., a lake or forest) to survive, all the chemical elements that make up living cells must be recycled continuously.
2: What is a Reservoir of water?
Each cycle can be considered as having a reservoir (nutrient) pool—a larger, slow-moving, usually abiotic portion—and an exchange (cycling) pool—a smaller but more active portion concerned with the rapid exchange between the biotic and abiotic aspects of an ecosystem.
3: What is Precipitation? Name a few types:
Precipitation is any form of liquid or solid water particles that fall from the atmosphere and reach the surface of the Earth. For the Gulf Coast area, precipitation includes drizzle, rain, hail, and on rare occasions, snow and sleet.
4: What is Evaporation? Where does most of evaporation take place on Earth? Sublimation? Deposition?
Evaporation is one of the two forms of vaporization.It is the process whereby atoms or molecules in a liquid state (or solid state if the substance sublimes) gain sufficient energy to enter the gaseous state.Evaporation takes place everywhere. The greatest amount takes place over the oceans.
5: What is Condensation?
Condensation is the process of a substance changing from it being in the gaseous state of matter to it being in the liquid state of matter.
6: What is Runoff? Where does it ultimately end up? (Most of it)
Runoff is the process in where gravity intervenes by pulling down all the liquid matters. They mostly end at the lowest point underground or it gets absorbed by the ground thanks to Runoff process.
7: Why are oceans salty?
Salt in the ocean comes from rocks on land.The rain that falls on the land contains some dissolved carbon dioxide from the surrounding air. This causes the rainwater to be slightly acidic due to carbonic acid. The rain physically erodes the rock and the acids chemically break down the rocks and carries salts and minerals along in a dissolved state as ions. The ions in the runoff are carried to the streams and rivers and then to the ocean. Many of the dissolved ions are used by organisms in the ocean and are removed from the water. Others are not used up and are left for long periods of time where their concentrations increase over time.
8: What are the 3 ways that the human body loses water?
The 3 ways where the body can loose water is when water gets evaporated from our skin , such as sweat. Another can be by being dehydrated and not having enough liquid.
9: What is evapotranspiration?
evapotranspiration is the sum of evaporation and transpiration. Some definitions include evaporation from surface-water bodies, even the oceans.
10: Diagram the Water Cycle (Hydrologic)
1: What are Biogeochemical Cycles?
Biogeochemical cycle, any of the natural circulation pathways of the essential elements of living matter. These elements in various forms flow from the nonliving (abiotic) to the living (biotic) components of the biosphere and back to the nonliving again. In order for the living components of a major ecosystem (e.g., a lake or forest) to survive, all the chemical elements that make up living cells must be recycled continuously.
2: What is a Reservoir of water?
Each cycle can be considered as having a reservoir (nutrient) pool—a larger, slow-moving, usually abiotic portion—and an exchange (cycling) pool—a smaller but more active portion concerned with the rapid exchange between the biotic and abiotic aspects of an ecosystem.
3: What is Precipitation? Name a few types:
Precipitation is any form of liquid or solid water particles that fall from the atmosphere and reach the surface of the Earth. For the Gulf Coast area, precipitation includes drizzle, rain, hail, and on rare occasions, snow and sleet.
4: What is Evaporation? Where does most of evaporation take place on Earth? Sublimation? Deposition?
Evaporation is one of the two forms of vaporization.It is the process whereby atoms or molecules in a liquid state (or solid state if the substance sublimes) gain sufficient energy to enter the gaseous state.Evaporation takes place everywhere. The greatest amount takes place over the oceans.
5: What is Condensation?
Condensation is the process of a substance changing from it being in the gaseous state of matter to it being in the liquid state of matter.
6: What is Runoff? Where does it ultimately end up? (Most of it)
Runoff is the process in where gravity intervenes by pulling down all the liquid matters. They mostly end at the lowest point underground or it gets absorbed by the ground thanks to Runoff process.
7: Why are oceans salty?
Salt in the ocean comes from rocks on land.The rain that falls on the land contains some dissolved carbon dioxide from the surrounding air. This causes the rainwater to be slightly acidic due to carbonic acid. The rain physically erodes the rock and the acids chemically break down the rocks and carries salts and minerals along in a dissolved state as ions. The ions in the runoff are carried to the streams and rivers and then to the ocean. Many of the dissolved ions are used by organisms in the ocean and are removed from the water. Others are not used up and are left for long periods of time where their concentrations increase over time.
8: What are the 3 ways that the human body loses water?
The 3 ways where the body can loose water is when water gets evaporated from our skin , such as sweat. Another can be by being dehydrated and not having enough liquid.
9: What is evapotranspiration?
evapotranspiration is the sum of evaporation and transpiration. Some definitions include evaporation from surface-water bodies, even the oceans.
10: Diagram the Water Cycle (Hydrologic)
The Carbon Cycle
1: All living things require what to create their bodies?
All living things require carbon in order to live
2: What percentage of the human body is Carbon?
18%
3: How are plants involved in the Carbon Cycle? What happens to the Carbon?- how does it get
back to the environment?
Photosynthesis, first by marine cyanobacteria, then by marine algae and finally by green land plants, has dramatically changed the carbon cycle and ultimately the earth. using the process of photosynthesis to convert atmospheric CO 2 into carbon-rich carbohydrates and sugars to feed themselves.
4: What happens to Carbon in the ocean? How does it get there? Where does it go?
Ocean absorbs a lot of carbon matter. This is because it gets more easily dissolved and underwater plants will use it for the Chemosynthetic process. However, so much carbon in the ocean affect marine life.
5: What are shells made of? What happens when they fall to the bottom of the ocean?
One interesting fact is that shells are made of carbon and photosynthesis. When these fall apart at the bottom of the ocean , they become rocks.
6: What happens to Limestone when it is dissolved in water?
Limestone (CaCO3) reacts with hydrogen ions in water. These are always present in water, since water undergoes autoprotolysis: H2O(l) = H+(aq) + OH-(aq) The more acidic the water is, the more limestone will react, and erode. The erosion of marble sculpture and inscriptions exposed to the elements is one of the consequences of acid rain.
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)?
The increasing of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere is causing global warming , which is the process in where greenhouse gases are not able to do their cycle and stayed at the atmosphere. It is important that Carbon remains locked in the ground or in ice , because when this gets released with methane which is good for our atmosphere.
8: What is positive feedback loop? Hint: What is happening with global warming?
A positive feedback loop, is what we called when methane and carbon dioxide is being released into the atmosphere helping greenhouse gases to continue doing their cycles.
9: Diagram the Carbon Cycle below:
1: All living things require what to create their bodies?
All living things require carbon in order to live
2: What percentage of the human body is Carbon?
18%
3: How are plants involved in the Carbon Cycle? What happens to the Carbon?- how does it get
back to the environment?
Photosynthesis, first by marine cyanobacteria, then by marine algae and finally by green land plants, has dramatically changed the carbon cycle and ultimately the earth. using the process of photosynthesis to convert atmospheric CO 2 into carbon-rich carbohydrates and sugars to feed themselves.
4: What happens to Carbon in the ocean? How does it get there? Where does it go?
Ocean absorbs a lot of carbon matter. This is because it gets more easily dissolved and underwater plants will use it for the Chemosynthetic process. However, so much carbon in the ocean affect marine life.
5: What are shells made of? What happens when they fall to the bottom of the ocean?
One interesting fact is that shells are made of carbon and photosynthesis. When these fall apart at the bottom of the ocean , they become rocks.
6: What happens to Limestone when it is dissolved in water?
Limestone (CaCO3) reacts with hydrogen ions in water. These are always present in water, since water undergoes autoprotolysis: H2O(l) = H+(aq) + OH-(aq) The more acidic the water is, the more limestone will react, and erode. The erosion of marble sculpture and inscriptions exposed to the elements is one of the consequences of acid rain.
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)?
The increasing of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere is causing global warming , which is the process in where greenhouse gases are not able to do their cycle and stayed at the atmosphere. It is important that Carbon remains locked in the ground or in ice , because when this gets released with methane which is good for our atmosphere.
8: What is positive feedback loop? Hint: What is happening with global warming?
A positive feedback loop, is what we called when methane and carbon dioxide is being released into the atmosphere helping greenhouse gases to continue doing their cycles.
9: Diagram the Carbon Cycle below: