Energy Flow and Cycles

What is precipitation?

• the sweat from our bodies on hot days

• the gas that we use in furnaces and ovens

• any form of water that falls from the sky

• warm rain, but not cold snow or sleet

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What is the water cycle?

• the process through which water evaporates

• the path water takes from Earth to the clouds and back again

• the path water takes from the mountain top to the soil

• the process of water falling from the clouds

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Which of these describes evaporation?

• Water vapor becomes a liquid.

• Plants lose water through their leaves.

• What comes down must go up.

• Water warms up and becomes a vapor.

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What is transpiration?

• the process in which plants release water through their leaves back into the air

• the process in which humans release sweat through their skin back into the air

• what happens when water vapor turns into a liquid

• the scientific name for the water cycle

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What is the process in which water vapor changes to liquid?

• aviation

• evaporation

• water runoff

• condensation

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What do water droplets form?

• clouds

• condensation

• nutrients

• humidity

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What is the nitrogen cycle?

• the process of chemically producing nitrogen to be used by plants and animals

• the process of continually recycling nitrogen from living things to non-living things between Earth and its atmosphere

• the process green plants use to make food

• the process of recycling carbon from living things to non-living things between Earth and its atmosphere

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Which of the following is one of the key components of the nitrogen cycle?

• carnivores

• rain

• the Sun

• bacteria

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Which organisms take in carbon dioxide?

• humans

• trees

• deer

• birds

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How does carbon dioxide cycle back and forth between plants and animals?

• Plants give off carbon dioxide, and animals take in carbon dioxide.

• Animals breathe out carbon dioxide, and plants take in carbon dioxide.

• Plants and animals both breathe in carbon dioxide.

• Plants and animals both breathe out carbon dioxide.

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