2 Carbon and Nitrogen Cycle

The Carbon Cycle has the greatest impact on ______________ on Earth

• Living organisms

• Climate change

• Plants

• The sun

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Two everyday processes that use oxygen and therefore carbon dioxide -

• Bacteria fixation

• Breathing (respiration)

• Decomposition

• Denitrification

According to NASA,

Nitrogen makes up _____% of our atmosphere.

• 21%

• 50%

• 93%

• 78%

Carbon is released back into the atmosphere through _______

• Photosynthesis

• Cell Respiration

• Decomposition

• Nitrogen cycle

Burning fossil fuels lead to ____________

• Greenhouse effect

• Cleaner air

• Less humidity

• Nuclear energy

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Deforestation causes an increase in ____________

• Oxygen

• Nitrogen

• Carbon dioxide

• Increased habitats

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Nitrogen goes through the process of ________ to become plant use. 

• Transformation

• Transpiration

• Denitrification

• Fixation

The continuous movement of carbon among the abiotic environment and living things.

• nutrient cycle

• carbon cycle

• nitrogen cycle

• water cycle

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A family of plants including beans, alfalfa, and peas, most of which harbor symbiotic, nitrogen-fixing bacteria in nodules in their roots.

• producers

• legumes

• prokaryotes

• tubers

The biological transformation of ammonia or ammonium to nitrites and nitrates.

• ammonification

• denitrification

• nitrification

• nitrogen fixation