Biogeochemical Cycles Review

The process of plants losing water through their leaves is called ____.

• condensation
• evaporation
• transpiration
• exhaling

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What is the only process that removes carbon from the atmosphere?

• combustion
• cellular respiration
• photosynthesis
• decomposition

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This process is responsible for most environmental problems of excess nitrogen and phosphorus entering streams, lakes and oceans.

• decomposition
• emissions from automobiles
• agriculture and house hold runoff
• photosynthesis

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Which of the following is known as the "sedimentary" cycle because its reservoir is sedimentary rock?

• Sulfur cycle
• Nitrogen cycle
• Phosphorus cycle
• Carbon cycle

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This is released by the weathering of rocks.

• Carbon
• Oxygen
• Phosphorus
• Nitrogen

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Identify the cycle pictured.

• The Water cycle
• The Carbon cycle
• The Nitrogen cycle
• The Phosphorus cycle.

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How do animals get nitrogen?

• the atmosphere 
• eating other organisms
• rainwater
• lightning 

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Organisms require nitrogen to make which of the following?

• glucose and starch
• lipids and nucleic acids
• proteins and nucleic acids
• carbohydrates and proteins

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What is this a picture of?

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

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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