Nutrient Cycles

This process removes carbon from the atmosphere?

• combustion

• cellular respiration

• photosynthesis

• decomposition

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What converts nitrogen into a useable form for plants and animals?

• bacteria
• fungi
• rain

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Which nutrient can cycle through fossil fuels such as coal and oil?

• carbon

• oxygen

• nitrogen

• phosphorus

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

This is the only nutrient that is NOT cycled through the atmosphere?

• carbon

• nitrogen

• phosphorous

• water

This is released by the weathering of rocks.

• Carbon
• Oxygen
• Phosphorus
• Nitrogen

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

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Where is the most water found on earth (i.e. the largest reservoir)?

• the ocean

• rocks and minerals

• the atmosphere

• glaciers

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Where is the most nitrogen found (i.e. the largest reservoir)?

• the ocean

• rocks and minerals

• the atmosphere

• bacteria

Human activity can increase carbon ( CO₂ ) levels in the atmosphere through

• Photosynthesis

• Burning of fossil fuels

• Planting more trees

• Adding nitrogen to fertilizer.

Too much phosphorus from fertilizers can runoff into freshwater and....

• be used to synthesize lipids.

• be absorbed directly by phosphate rock.

• be decomposed and returned to large bodies of water.

• lead to algal blooms, which causes eutrophication

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

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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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