Biogeochemical Cycles

What is this a picture of?

• Nitrogen cycle
• carbon cycle
• water cycle
• plant cycle

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How does carbon dioxide leave the atmosphere?

• Through transpiration
• Through photosynthesis
• Through factory emission
• Sunlight

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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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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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Respiration is the process by which ____________ is consumed and _______________ is produced.

• Carbon, Oxygen
• Oxygen, Carbon dioxide
• H20, oxygen
• Carbon, H2O

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Which of the following describes the role of nitrogen-fixing bacteria in the nitrogen cycle? Nitrogen-fixing bacteria convert

• nitrates intro nitrogen gas
• ammonia into proteins
• nitrogen gas into ammonia
• proteins into nitrates

The nitrogen cycle is a biogeochemical cycle because it moves ?

• only between living things (biosphere)
• only in the soil (geosphere)
• between the 4 different spheres
• only in the air (atmosphere)

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When nitrogen gas is turned in to a form that plants and animals can use is called 

• Combustion
• Photosynthesis
• Decomposition
• Nitrogen Fixation

What happens when organisms die and decay? 

• Their nitrogen moves to the air as nitrogen gas
• Their nitrogen returns to the soil as ammonium
• Their nitrogen becomes tapped in clay and is unusable
• They stay on earth forever

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Carbon dioxide is added to the atmosphere by

• Burning fossil fuels 
• Cellular respiration
• Decomposing organic matter
• All answers are correct

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