QUIZ: Cycles, Global Warming, Ocean Acidification

An underground layer of sand, gravel or rock that stores and carries water

• water table

• water cycle

• aquifer

• Infiltration

The process of changing a vapor into a liquid, which occurs when warm vapor mixes with cooler air in the atmosphere

• Transpiration

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

When clouds get too heavy and water falls back to earth in the form of rain, snow, hail or other forms.

• Precipitation

• Evaporation

• Percolation

• Transpiration

Changes liquid and frozen water into water vapor gas which floats up into the skies to become clouds

• Evaporation

• Precipitation

• Condensation

• Runoff

The __________ is the main regulator of CO₂ in the atmosphere because CO₂ dissolves easily in it.

• coal

• ocean

• natural gas

• greenhouse

How does the human body return carbon to the atmosphere in the carbon cycle?

• Waste products

• Photosynthesis

• Cellular respiration

• Formation of glucose

What kind of organism takes out the most carbon from the atmosphere?

• Plants

• Bacteria

• Animals

• Humans

What converts nitrogen gas into a usable form for plants and animals?

• bacteria

• rain

• fungi

• car exhaust

Organisms that need nitrogen to survive.

• only plants

• only animals

• only bacteria

• all living things

Which of the following is NOT an effect of Global Warming?

• Polar ice caps will melt.
• Coastal regions will be covered with rising sea levels.
• Some areas will experience serious droughts
• The Earth's rotation will slow down and eventually stop