animals breathing out condensation

Identify the cycle pictured.

This is not a correct diagram of any cycle.

The main difference between the water cycle and all the other biogeochemical cycles is that water_______.

never changes its structural form

creates completely new substances

is made from matter that has been here since the world was formed

is much slower than the other cycles

How are humans negatively affecting the nitrogen cycle?

burning coal which releases nitrogen into the atmosphere and causes acid rain

Humans plant excessive nitrogen consuming plants

riding bicycles made of nitrogen based products

eating foods which contain high amounts of nitrogen

Which of the following statements about the nitrogen cycle is false?

nitrogen can be used from the air

nitrogen can be fixed by lightning or bacteria

nitrogen is used to make proteins in the human body

nitrogen can be released back into the air or the ground after an organism dies

Why do heterotrophs need nitrogen?

making amino acids and nucleic acids

for the burning of fossil fules

Where is a lot of the CO2 located on earth?

in the atmosphere acting as a greenhouse gas

What can excess amounts of nitrogen cause in ecosystems?

Disrupts the equilibrium of ecosystem, causing number of species to decline

Leads to improvement of an ecosystem due to healthy plant growth

Leads to high oxygen content in aquatic ecosystems

Increases the speed of decomposition of plants and animals

What is evapotranspiration?

Transpiration and Evaporation combined

The process of water evaporating

How nitrogen is "fixed" into useable form for plants...

through action of bacteria & lightning

through action of bacteria only

What role do decomposers play in the phosphorous cycle?

return phosphorous into the soil

release phosphorous into atmosphere

What do plants do with the carbon they absorb?

Make carbohydrates in the form of sugars.

Make amino acids that become proteins.

Which of the following statements is true of the phosphorus cycle?

The phosphorus cycle utilizes the processes of erosion, and weathering.

Phosphorus enters the atmosphere as phosphates.

Phosphates are used in carbohydrate and glucose storage.

The phosphorus cycle utilizes bacteria to breakdown phosphates and make them available for plants.

This process is responsible for most environmental problems of excess nitrogen and phosphorus entering streams, lakes and oceans.

agriculture and house hold runoff

A student gets a can of soda from the refrigerator. There is a thin film of moisture on the surface of the can. Which best describes the source of the moisture?

Water from the air condensed on the can

Water from the can evaporated into the air

Melted ice from the refrigerator forms on the can

Ice from the refrigerator becomes frozen on the can

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How does carbon dioxide leave the atmosphere?

Through transpiration

Through photosynthesis

Through factory emission

Sunlight

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What is one way that carbon enters the atmosphere?

Sunlight

Factory emissions

Ocean uptake

Rain

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When carbon combines with oxygen, what forms?

Nitrogen

Argon

Carbon dioxide

Sodium hydrogen

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Which process takes Carbon Dioxide from the air and converts it into a form of carbon used by living things?

Precipitation

Photosynthesis

Respiration

Bioremdiation

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

Bioremediation

Photosynthesis

Respiration

Transpiration

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These gases, such as carbon dioxide, trap heat in the Earth's atmosphere causing global warming

Global warming gases

Hot House gases

Green House gases

Thermal pollution

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In the food web, which organisms release the carbon from dead things back into the environment?

Producers

Consumers

Scavengers

Decomposers

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Biogeochemical Cycles

How does carbon dioxide leave the atmosphere?

What is one way that carbon enters the atmosphere?

When carbon combines with oxygen, what forms?

Which process takes Carbon Dioxide from the air and converts it into a form of carbon used by living things?

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

These gases, such as carbon dioxide, trap heat in the Earth's atmosphere causing global warming

In the food web, which organisms release the carbon from dead things back into the environment?

What is evaporation?

When a liquid becomes a gas

When a gas becomes a liquid

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