Earth's Energy & Cycles

What is the source of most of Earth's heat on land, water, and the atmosphere?

• Temperature

• Wind

• Tanning beds

• The sun

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What is radiation?

• The process of the sun's energy reaching the Earth

• The process of Earth having day and night

• The process of plants using carbon dioxide for photosynthesis

• The process of the sun putting off energy

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Heat getting trapped in the atmosphere by gases is an example of what?

• Summer

• Global warming

• Greenhouse effect

• Convection

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Select all of the ways Solar Energy is transferred

• Light waves

• Radiation

• Sound waves

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The picture is a diagram of the what?

• Carbon cycle

• Nitrogen cycle

• Solar energy cycle

• Water cycle

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What drives the water cycle to work? Energy from the.....

• Wind

• Ground

• Sun

• Rocks

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What is the process where nitrogen from the atmosphere is changed into nitrogen compounds that living organisms can use?

• Nitrogen cycle

• Nitrogen elements

• Nitrogen process

• Nitrogen fixation

What can turn nitrogen gas into nitrogen compounds?

• Lightening

• Thunder

• Tornado

• Science experiment

• Rain

When organisms die, how do their remains get broken down and returned to the soil?

• Groundwater

• Decomposers

• Surface runoff

• Vultures

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How do animals get the carbon from plants?

• By being around them

• By breathing around them

• By eating them

• By sleeping near them

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