Biogeochemical Cycles

How do living things contribute to the water cycle?

• Condensation

• Evaporation

• Precipitation

• Transpiration

The initial energy that fuels the carbon cycle is the sun.

• True

• False

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In the water cycle how does water leave the atmosphere and come back to the earth’s surface?

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Transpiration

• Evaporation

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What cycle requires bacteria to fix the nutrients before it can be used by organisms?

• Phosphorus

• Carbon

• Nitrogen

Choose the correct order of events in the nitrogen cycle.

• Bacteria fix nitrogen, nitrogen in air, animals get nitrogen, animals die and decompose

• Animals die and decompose, animals get nitrogen from plants, nitrogen in air, bacteria fix nitrogen

• Nitrogen in air, bacteria fix nitrogen, animals get nitrogen from plants, animals die and decompose

• Nitrogen in air, animals get nitrogen from plants, bacteria fix nitrogen, animals die and decompose

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Which one is not one of the four biogeochemical cycles?

• Phosphorus

• Carbon

• Oxygen

• Nitrogen

Which of the following is a correct process from the carbon cycle?

• Carbon is fixed in the soil by bacteria.

• Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere respires in plants to make oxygen.

• Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere photosynthesizes through plants to make oxygen.

• Fossil fuels respire to make oxygen.

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What is the term for how water becomes water vapor?

• Evaporation

• Sublimation

• Precipitation

• Condensation

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Which of the following statements about the nitrogen cycle is NOT true?

• Animals get nitrogen by eating plants or other animals

• Plants generate nitrogen in their roots

• Nitrogen moves back and forth directly between the atmosphere and living things

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What two cycles involve breathing to bring the element back to the atmosphere?

• Water and Nitrogen cycle

• Water and Carbon cycle

• Carbon and Phosphorus cycle

• Carbon and Nitrogen cycle

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