ES: Unit 1 Test Review

When a liquid becomes a gas...

• Transpiration
• Condensation
• Precipitation
• Evaporation

When a gas becomes a liquid (anywhere)...

• Precipitation
• Evaporation
• Percolation
• Condensation

The process when water leaves a plant through small pores it is called... 

• Precipitation
• Condensation
• Transpiration
• Perspiration

Rain, snow, sleet, and hail are all examples of: 

• Transpiration
• Condensation
• Evaporation
• Precipitation

The energy that drives the water cycle comes from 

• Solar Radiation
• Geothermal Heat
• Water Energy
• Photosynthesis

Which process takes carbon dioxide, water, and solar energy and converts it into sugar and oxygen gas?

• Precipitation
• Photosynthesis
• Respiration
• Bioremdiation

Which process converts carbon in the form of sugar into carbon dioxide gas?

• Bioremediation
• Photosynthesis
• Cellular Respiration
• Transpiration

The fear with global warming is that as the arctic temperature rises the accumulated biomass will decompose instead of remain frozen and trapped in the soil and release even more green house gases which will continue to cause temperatures to rise. WHAT TYPE OF FEEDBACK LOOP IS THIS?

• Decreasing
• Increasing
• Positive
• Negative

The biosphere - 

• Is the portion of earth in which living organisms exist
• Includes none of the hydrosphere
• Includes all of the lithosphere
• Includes some of the mantle

The presence of what natural greenhouse gas in the atmosphere is vital to continued life on earth?

• Ozone
• Carbon Dioxide
• Oxygen Gas
• Nitrogen Gas