Day 7 Vocabulary
Across
- 2. Discovery that mass is neither created nor destroyed in chemical reactions.
- 5. Organisms that obtain their energy from a chemical reaction
- 7. A mineral that naturally occurs in many foods and is also available as a supplement
- 13. Nonmetallic and tetravalent element
- 14. An element that exists in nature and can be found in soil, plants, foods, and water
- 15. A substance that provides nourishment essential for growth and the maintenance of life.
- 16. The process of converting nitrogen gas into ammonia, which spontaneously becomes ammonium
- 17. When water on the surface changes to water vapor
- 18. Found in bodies of water and in the soil
Down
- 1. The process of converting natural nitrogen compounds into ammonia.
- 3. The movement of nutrients and other elements between biotic and abiotic factors
- 4. Environmental change caused or influenced by people, either directly or indirectly
- 6. When water vapor forms clouds
- 8. When ice and snow change directly to water vapor
- 9. When plants release water vapor through leaf pores
- 10. When water falls back to Earth as rain or snow
- 11. A process by which reduced nitrogen compounds are sequentially oxidized to nitrite and nitrate
- 12. Important component of nucleic acids, proteins, and other organic molecules