AP Biogeochemical Cycles

What is this a picture of?

• Nitrogen cycle

• carbon cycle

• water cycle

• plant cycle

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How does carbon dioxide leave the atmosphere?

• Through transpiration

• Through photosynthesis

• Through factory emission

• Sunlight

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Which process takes Carbon Dioxide from the air and converts it into a form of carbon used by living things?

• Precipitation

• Photosynthesis

• Respiration

• Bioremdiation

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Cellular respiration is the process by which ____________ is consumed and _______________ is produced.

• Carbon, Oxygen

• Oxygen, Carbon dioxide

• H20, oxygen

• Carbon, H2O

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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Growing legumes such as alfalfa or soy beans increases

• denitrification

• nitrogen fixation

• ammonification

• ammonium oxidation

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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

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

Carbon dioxide is added to the atmosphere by

• Burning fossil fuels 

• Cellular respiration

• Decomposing organic matter

• All answers are correct

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