Biogeochemical Cycles

Which cycle involves condensation, evaporation, and precipitation?

• The water cycle

• The carbon cycle

• The nitrogen cycle

• The motor cycle

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Which of the following cycles needs different types of bacteria to make the most common gas in the atmosphere useful to plants?

• the water cycle

• the carbon cycle

• the nitrogen cycle

• the hydrogen cycle

Which of the following cycles does photosynthesis produce oxygen and respiration produce carbon dioxide?

• the water cycle

• the carbon cycle

• the nitrogen cycle

• the hydrogen cycle

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What part of the water cycle does this picture show?

• condensation

• precipitation

• evaporation

• transpiration

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Snow, sleet, hail, and rain are all examples of  ________________. 

• evaporation
• condensation
• accumulation
• precipitation

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How do plants get the nitrogen they need

• from the air

• from the soil or water in which they live

• from the Sun

• from broken down rocks

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Combustion is another word for __________.

• Transportation
• Respiration
• Fossil Fuels
• Burning

Cellular Respiration is the process by which animals take in _____ and release _____.

• photosynthesis, air

• carbon, oxygen

• oxygen

• oxygen, carbon dioxide

Burning (combustion) fossil fuels has which effect in the carbon cycle?

• It removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

• It puts carbon dioxide under the ground.

• It adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

• It has no effect in the carbon cycle.

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Which process takes carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere?

• respiration
• combustion
• decomposition
• photosynthesis

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