Biogeochemical Cycles

Identify the cycle pictured.

• The Water cycle

• The Carbon cycle

• The Nitrogen cycle

• The Phosphorus cycle.

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Which nutrient is not cycled through the atmosphere and stays only on ground level?

• carbon

• nitrogen

• phosphorus

• water

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How does carbon dioxide leave the atmosphere and become part of the food chain?

• Through transpiration

• Through photosynthesis

• Through factory emission

• Sunlight

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What role do animals play in the carbon cycle?

• absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

• give off carbon dioxide through respiration

• combustion

• decomposing matter

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How does nitrogen become part of the food chain?

• Through transpiration by plants

• Through uptake of nitrogen compounds in the soil by plants

• Through factory emission and combustion of fossil fuels

• Sunlight changes nitrogen into usable forms

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How do  animals get nitrogen?

• the atmosphere 

• eating other organisms

• bacteria

• lightning 

What do the water, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, a phosphorus cycles have in common?

• All involve liquid substances falling to the Earth from the atmosphere?

• None of the processes works at low temperature.

• All involve the constant cycling of substances between animals, plants, and the Earth.

• All involve the transfer of substances between the earth and outer space.

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Which process is primarily responsible for the conversion of atmospheric nitrogen into a form usable by plants?

• Nitrogen fixation

• Photosynthesis

• Respiration

• Transpiration

What is the main way that phosphorus is released into the soil?

• Weathering of rocks

• Photosynthesis

• Respiration

• Combustion

Which cycle involves the exchange of carbon between the atmosphere and living organisms?

• Carbon cycle

• Nitrogen cycle

• Phosphorus cycle

• Water cycle

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