Nitrogen Cycle/Environmental Issues Quiz

Approximately ___ percent of the Earth’s atmosphere is nitrogen gas.

• 99

• 0

• 25

• 78

How do consumers get useable nitrogen?

• Hanging out in lightning storms

• Eating plants

• Eating other consumers

• Consumers don't need nitrogen

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In the nitrogen cycle, nitrogen moves back and forth between ____ and living things.

• fossil fuels

• rocks

• the carbon cycle

• the atmosphere

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Some bacteria that fix nitrogen live in bumps on the roots of certain plants. These plants are called

• nodules.

• legumes.

• starches.

• droplets.

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Some bacteria that fix nitrogen live in bumps on the roots of certain plants. These bumps are called

• nodules

• legumes

• starches

• droplets

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Smog contains nitrogen.  Smog can lead to _________________.

• acid rain

• eutrophication 

• decreased nitrogen in the biosphere

• all of the above

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Oysters being grown in mesh bags to make an artificial reef or fish being raised in nets offshore in the ocean are both examples of  ___________________ 

• Biodiversity

• Fishery Area

• Clear-Cutting

• Aquaculture

• Selective Cutting

Cutting down all the trees in an area is called ______________ .

• Biodiversity

• Fishery Area

• Clear-Cutting

• Aquaculture

• Selective Cutting

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Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of producers and death of animal life from lack of oxygen when the producers decompose.

• Biodiversity

• Fishery Area

• Clear-Cutting

• Aquaculture

• Eutrophication

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Harvesting specific trees rather than all of the trees to maintain the health of the ecosystem is an example of _______________________.

• Biodiversity

• Fishery Area

• Clear-Cutting

• Aquaculture

• Selective Cutting

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