nutrient cycles

Identify the cycle pictured.

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

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How do animals get the carbon they need?

• decomposing
• combustion
• eating plants 
• breathing it in

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What role do animals play in the carbon cycle?

• absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
• give off carbon dioxide through respiration
• combustion
• decomposing matter

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Where do animals get nitrogen from?

• from the soil
• directly from the air
• from water they drink
• from plants they eat

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When water turns to vapor and rises into the atmosphere from the ocean, it is called

• condensation

• transpiration

• evaporation

• sublimation

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A(n) _____ is fresh (drinking) water underground

• aquifer

• aquarium

• well

• estuary

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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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The nitrogen cycle is a biogeochemical cycle because it moves ?

• only between living things (biosphere)

• only in the soil (geosphere)

• between living things, the soil, and air

• only in the air (atmosphere)

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

• Combustion
• Photosynthesis
• Decomposition
• Nitrogen Fixation

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

• condensation
• evaporation
• transpiration
• exhaling

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