APES Nutrient Cycles

Which elements are in fertilizer?

• Nitrogen and Oxygen
• Phosphorous and Hydrogen
• Nitrogen and Phosphorous

What is one way that people add Nitrogen into the environment?

• By littering
• By using fertilizer on farms
• By burning fossil fuels 

What is one way that people add Phosphorus into the environment?

• Manure from animals 
• Driving cars
• Cutting down trees (deforestation)

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

Where does the carbon come from that plants use?

• Animals
• Water
• Air
• Connecticut

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

What of the following is NOT a way that people add carbon to the environment?

• Burning fossil fuels

• Slash and burn deforestation

• Littering

What is one way that people add sulfur into the environment?

• Coal-fired power plants
• Driving cars
• Burning oil in our homes
• All of the above 

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

What is a negative effect of sulfur (especially sulfur dioxide) being released into the atmosphere?

• It creates acid rain
• It causes clouds to not form
• It makes the sky yellow 

What are the four most important materials needed by living organisms?

• water, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen
• water, food, oxygen, carbon
• water, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous
• water, carbon, food, phosphorous

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

An underground layer of rocks or sand that can hold groundwater.

• watershed
• levee
• aquifer
• erosion

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

An area or ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different rivers, basins, or seas.

• watershed
• levee
• aquifer
• erosion

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4