Cycles and Climate Change

When bacteria converts ammonia into Nitrate ions and/or Nitrite ions. 

• Denitrification
• Nitrogen Fixation
• Ammonification
• Nitrification

When bacteria convert atmospheric nitrogen into a form that plants can assimilate,

• Assimilation
• Nitrification
• Nitrogen Fixation
• Denitrification

When an organism absorbs nutrients such as when a plant takes in any of the nutrients that we have discussed in class.

• Assimilation
• Photosynthesis
• Ammonification
• Decomposition

Which cycle is the slowest and only cycle to not have an atmospheric component?

• Carbon
• Sulfur
• Nitrogen
• Phosphorus

Climate change will/is causing all of the following EXCEPT:

• Loss of Biodiversity
• Increased amount of water vapor in the troposphere
• Increased spread of mosquito born illnesses
• An increase in tropical coral

All of the following put CO₂ into the atmosphere EXCEPT:

• anaerobic decomposition
• Cellular Respiration
• Burning fossil fuels
• aerobic decomposition

Decomposition of dead animals and animal waste produces all of the following EXCEPT:

• NH₃
• CO₂
• Soluble Phosphates
• N₂

What time of day would you expect the most dissolved oxygen to be found in a lake?

• 10 PM
• Sunrise
• Sunset
• Noon

What is often a limiting nutrient in soils and aquatic ecosystems

• Phosphorus
• Carbon
• Water
• Sulfur

What greenhouse gas is created by denitrification?

• NO₂
• N₂
• N₂O
• NO₃^-