Cycle Vocab

2. Is the chemical process by which organic compounds release energy.
4. cycle Is a repeating cycle of processes during which nitrogen moves through both living and non-living things.
6. Part of the water cycle that flows over land as surface water instead of being absorbed into groundwater or evaporating.
7. Is the process by which bacteria and fungi break dead organisms into their simple compounds.
10. The process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water. Photosynthesis in plants generally involves the green pigment chlorophyll and generates oxygen as a byproduct.
11. cycle The cycle of processes by which water circulates between the earth's oceans, atmosphere, and land, involving precipitation as rain and snow, drainage in streams and rivers, and return to the atmosphere by evaporation and transpiration.
12. acids A complex organic substance present in living cells, especially DNA or RNA, whose molecules consist of many nucleotides linked in a long chain.
14. A relatively inert gas plentiful in air.

1. Is an organic compound such as sugar or starch, and is used to store energy.
3. cycle Is nature's way of reusing carbon atoms, which travel from the atmosphere into organisms in the Earth and then back into the atmosphere over and over again.
5. Water held underground in the soil or in pores and crevices in rock.
8. cycle Is the process by which phosphorus moves through the lithosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere.
9. Is the process of absorption of vitamins, minerals, and other chemicals from food as part of the nutrition of an organism.
13. The process by which the earth's surface slowly rises either due to increasing upward force applied from below or decreasing downward force (weight) from above.