Sustainability Unit Review

Nitrogen is released through respiration

• True

• False

Animals obtain the nitrogen they need directly from the

• soil in their habitat
• air they breathe
• plants they eat
• bacteria living within them

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A particular golf course is using large amounts of nitrogen fertilizer. What process could move this nitrogen into a local stream?

• volatilization
• nitrogen fixation
• runoff
• ammonification

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Plants and animals cannot use nitrogen directly from the air.

• True
• False

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

What converts nitrogen into a useable form for plants and animals?

• bacteria
• fungi
• rain

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

After plants and animals contain nitrogen, what puts it back into atmosphere and soil?

• decomposition
• precipitation
• condensation
• bacteria

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Which one of these does not add CO2 to the atmosphere?

• cooking with gas
• planting trees
• burning wood
• riding in a bus

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

How do living organisms return carbon to the atmosphere in the carbon cycle?

• respiration and photosynthesis
•  decomposition and respiration

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NGSS.HS-LS2-5

In the carbon cycle, producers take in the gas __

• carbon dioxide
• oxygen
• nitrogen
• carbon monoxide

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Which of the following removes carbon from the atmosphere?

• Combustion
• Respiration
• Photosynthesis
• Death

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6