Matter Cycles

Denitrification

• Process of nitrates converted to nitrogen gas

• Members of the Leguminosea family that can fix atmospheric nitrogen.

• The process of Ammonia changing into nitrite and then into nitrate.

• The change of organic matter into inorganic matter. Nitrogen Assimilation:

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Biogeochemical cycles

• The change of organic matter into inorganic matter.

• The change of nitrogen from inorganic form to organic form.

• Process of nitrates converted to nitrogen gas

• Cycles of living and nonliving parts on earth

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Nitrogen fixation

• The change of atmospheric nitrogen into forms that can be use by plants.

• The change of organic matter into inorganic matter.

• An organism's place on the food chain Food chains weaved together to make a community of organisms.

• The process of Ammonia changing into nitrite and then into nitrate.

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Nitrogen Cycle

• The change of organic matter into inorganic matter.

• The change of atmospheric nitrogen into forms that can be use by plants.

• the cycle by which phosphorus is traded around between the lithosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere.

• The recycling of nitrogen between living and non-living things

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A collection of organisms that belong to different populations but all live in the same area and interact with one another.

• Population
• Ecosystem
• Community
• Ecosphere

A collection of organisms that make up a community as well as all of the nonliving aspects of the environment.

• Population
• Community
• Habitat
• Ecosystem

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Nonliving factor that affects an ecosystem...

• biotic factor
• abiotic factor
• food chain 
• biome

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What are the ecological levels of organization from smallest to the largest?

• organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere
• organism, community, population, ecosystem, biome, biosphere
• organism, population, community, biome, ecosystem, ecosphere.
• organism, community, population, biome, ecosystem, ecosphere

The study of the interactions between organisms and their environment

• Biology

• Ecology

• Sociology

• Geology

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Temperature, light, air, water, and soil are all  _____  parts of the environment

• alive
• biotic 
• abiotic
• living

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