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What are Limestone, Coal, and Diamonds?
These types of rocks are carbon-based.
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What are the Hydrosphere, Lithosphere, Biosphere, and Atmosphere?
Oxygen, like carbon, is found in these places.
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What is Evaporation?
Dry air removes water from oceans through this process.
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What are Microorganisms?
These things are vital to the nitrogen cycle because of how they alter the nitrogen in multiple ways
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What is Positive Feedback?
This thing is what amplifies the change in an output of a system.
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What is the Magnetosphere?
In which of these five reservoirs is carbon NOT prominent? Hydrosphere, Lithosphere, Biosphere, Atmosphere, Magnetosphere.
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What is Ozone?
Oxygen bonded to itself twice forms this compound.
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What is a System?
A set of different components that create a whole
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What is the Haber-Bosch Process?
This process has allowed for the disruption of the nitrogen cycle in many different forms
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What is Negative Feedback?
This thing reduces or regulates the changes occurring from the input and output of a system.
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What is the Sun?
This force is responsible for most of the Earth's carbon-driven processes.
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What is Oxygen Cycle?
Oxygen traveling through each of the four reservoirs is known as what.
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What is Equilibrium?
A condition in a system where competing factors are balanced evenly.
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What is DNA?
Nitrogen is a part of this vital thing in humans
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What is Feedback?
This occurs when a condition in a system causes activity that then impacts that initial condition.
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What is the Carbon Cycle?
The transfer of carbon between reservoirs is called this thing.
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What are fertilizers?
These things reduce oxygen levels in areas so much that they are referred to as "dead zones."
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What is a Component?
A piece of a system that is part of a larger whole
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What is the Nitrogen Cycle?
The process of moving nitrogen atoms through different reservoirs by converting them with bacteria.
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What is a Boundary?
The definition of what is and is not in a system.
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What is Photosynthesis?
Plants use carbon in this process to produce oxygen.
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What are hypoxic areas?
Another term for "dead zones" is what.
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What is Flow?
The term for the behaviors or processes that transform input to output.
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What is Nitrogen?
This thing is an important component in all parts of life on Earth.
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Who is Herbert Simon?
This person coined the term "systems thinking"
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