Biogeochemical Cycles Quiz

The transfer of nitrogen from the atmosphere to the soil, to living organisms, and back to the atmosphere is known as

• The nitrogen cycle

• The water cycle

• The carbon cycle

• The oxygen cycle

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The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back is called

• The nitrogen cycle

• The hydrologic cycle

• The carbon cycle

• The oxygen cycle

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The movement of carbon from the nonliving environment into living things and back is known as

• The nitrogen cycle

• The carbon cycle

• The water cycle

• The oxygen cycle

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Living things such as trees, insects, fish, and bacteria are known as

• Biotic factors

• Abiotic factors

Nonliving things such as rocks, water and air are known as

• Biotic Factors

• Abiotic Factors

Evaporation is ...

• when the sun heats up water in rivers or lakes or the ocean and turns it into vapor or steam

• movement of water from the leaves of a plant

• vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into liquid, forming clouds

• when water in the form of ice, rain, sleet, hail, or snow, falls to Earth

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Precipitation is

• when the sun heats up water in rivers or lakes or the ocean and turns it into vapor or steam

• the evaporation of water from the leaves of a plant

• when water vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into liquid, forming clouds

• when water in the form of ice, rain, sleet, hail, or snow, falls to Earth

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H2O is the formula for

• Nitrogen

• Carbon

• Water

• Oxygen

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True or False. Nitrogen is found in the atmosphere.

• True

• False

A process in which elements, chemical compounds, and other forms of matter are passed from one organism to another and from one part of the biosphere to another is called

• Biogeochemical Cycles

• Hydrologic Cycles

• Nitrogen Cycles

• Carbon Cycles

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