Biogeochemical Cycles

What are the cycles that move energy and nutrients around the Earth?

• water cycle

• carbon cycle

• biogeochemical cycle

• phosphorus cycle

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CHNOPS stands for carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus & sulfur.

• true

• false

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What is the movement of nutrients and other elements between biotic and abiotic factors called?

• geological cycle

• chemical cycle

• biocycle

• biogeochemical cycle

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Where does the phosphorous come from that starts the phosphorus cycle?

• The Rock Cycle

• water

• atmosphere

• from the other cycles

What is the main contributing factor that makes the nitrogen cycle work?

• Sunlight

• Fungus

• Eutrophication

• Bacteria

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Which two cycles have limiting factors in the cycles?

• carbon & hydrogen

• nitrogen & phosphorus

• sulfur & Oxygen

• water & oxygen

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Where does the energy that fuels the biogeochemical cycles come from?

• Sun

• Earth

• the universe

• it is created by the other cycles

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Explain how matter is conserved in the environment.

• matter is neither created or destroyed, it changes form

• It is not conserved in the environment

• all matter stays in the same form forever

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What would happen if we didn't have the nutrients in the biogeochemical cycles?

• the ecosystem would stay the same

• ecosystems would collapse

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Plants get carbon from?

• atmosphere

• photosynthesis

• the ground

• other plants

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