No links please thx! 1. Describe the course of the water cycle which formed in Biosphere 2

2. Deduce what would happen if you were to store your “Biosphere X” in the dark for a few weeks.

1) Solution

The sun warms the ocean surface and other surface water, causing liquid water to evaporate and ice to sublime. It turn directly from a solid to a gas. These sun driven processes move water into the atmosphere in the form of water vapor.

2) Solution

If we store the “Biosphere 2” in the dark for a few weeks, the water vapour will condense to form water.

step 1 ammonium can be absorbed by plants, but some is converted into nitrates which are better for plants to absorb. this is called nitrification. 2. step 2 the deer eats the plants and uses the nitrogen-containing proteins for cell growth. 3. step 3 bacteria in the soil conduct nitrogen fixation to convert nitrogen gas from the atmosphere into ammonium. 4. step 4 some of the nitrates are absorbed back into plants, but denitrification breaks down the nitrates into nitrogen gas released back into the atmosphere. 5. step 5 nitrogen is found in the urine, which gets broken down into ammonium through the process of ammonification. 6. step 6 plants absorb the ammonium and begin assimilation, the process to add the nitrogen to protein.