Biogeochemical Cycles

When water is heated in the ocean by the sun and turns into water vapor

• condensation
• evaporation
• transpiration
• runoff

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When water vapor s cooled and forms droplets-

• Condensation
• Evaportation
• Transpiration
• Run-off

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After condensation, the droplets of water in the clouds fall to the earth in different forms

• precipitation 
• condensation
• evaporation 
• ground water

What does NOT produce carbon dioxide?

• Photosynthesis
• Burning Fossil Fuels
• Animal respiration
• Plants decaying

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Organisms that do not decompose can be buried and become what?

• water
• nutrients
• air
• fossil fuels

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Carbon enters the soil through dead plant or animal matter.

• Decomposition

• Respiration

• Photosynthesis

• Diffusion

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How animals get the nitrogen they need

• from the air they breathe
• from the water they drink
• from the food they eat
• from the Sun

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How nitrogen is "fixed" into useable form for plants

• only through action of bacteria
• only through lightning
• through action of bacteria & lightning
• through photosynthesis

Organism that breaks down dead plants & animals and releases nitrogen back into atmosphere

• bacteria
• plants
• animals
• producers

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Organisms that convert fixed nitrogen back into nitrogen gas and release nitrogen gas back into atmosphere...

•  denitrifying bacteria
• fungi
• maggots 
• all of the above

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