Cycles of matter

What is another name for evaporation of water through the leaves of plants?

• Transpiration
• Condensation
• Precipitation
• Percolation

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Rain, sleet, snow, and hail are all forms of _____.

• Percolation
• Evaporation
• Condensation
• Precipitation

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Which of the following best explains why nitrogen fixation must take place?

• Atmospheric nitrogen is unusable to plants and animals
• Nitrogen must be returned to the atmosphere
• Animals must breathe in nitrogen
• Nitrogen gets "stuck" in the soil and must be untrapped

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What is the overall purpose of photosynthesis?

• To use energy from the sun to produce food for the plant
• To use energy from the sun to produce oxygen for animals to breathe
• To break down food in order to produce energy (ATP)
• To break down food in order to produce carbon dioxide

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Photosynthesis

• absorbs CO2
• releases CO2

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

• bacteria
• plants
• animals
• producers

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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 part of the water cycle does this picture show?

• condensation
• precipitation
• evaporation

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Which is the opposite of condensation?

• runoff
• evaporation
• precipitation
• transpiration

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