Nutrient Cycles

What does NOT produce carbon dioxide?

• Photosynthesis
• Burning Fossil Fuels
• Animal respiration
• Plants decaying

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Combustion is another word for __________.

• Transportation
• Respiration
• Fossil Fuels
• Burning

Organisms that do not decompose can be buried and become what?

• water
• nutrients
• air
• fossil fuels

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Carbon can be found in...

• The atmosphere
• Soil
• Fossil fuels
• All of the above

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Which of the following removes carbon from the atmosphere?

• Combustion
• Respiration
• Photosynthesis
• Death

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What process occurs when coal (fossil fuel) is used for energy?

• Decomposition
• Combustion
• Pressurization 
• Respiration 

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

• photosynthesis, air
• carbon, oxygen
• oxygen
• oxygen, carbon dioxide

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What converts nitrogen gas into a usable form for plants and animals?

• bacteria

• rain

• fungi

• car exhaust

The process in which nitrogen circulates and is recycled is called

• The nitrogen cycle

• The carbon cycle

• The water cycle

• The phosphorus cycle

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Organisms that need nitrogen to survive.

• only plants

• only animals

• only bacteria

• all living things

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