Energy Transfer & Biogeochemical Cycles

Plants take groundwater up through their roots and it is evaporated from their leaves in this process.

• Infiltration

• Evaporation

• Transpiration

• Sublimation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Animals obtain carbon by eating plants or other animals that ate plants.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What organism plays a major role in the nitrogen cycle (specifically nitrogen fixation)?

• Animals

• Fungi

• Bacteria

• Plants

What is the most abundant (greatest amount) gas in our atmosphere?

• Oxygen

• Water Vapor

• Carbon Dioxide

• Nitrogen

This species has the largest impact on the carbon cycle.

• humans

• insects

• dogs

• elephants

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

The burning of wood and/or fossil fuels, releasing carbon into the atmosphere is known as

• combustion

• condensation

• infiltration

• fixation

The process in which water vapor condenses and falls from the sky

• Precipitation

• Infiltration

• Evaporation

• Transpiration

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

How is phosphorus released from rocks into the soil?

• decomposers

• photosynthesis

• weathering/erosion

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Which process describes nitrogen fixation?

• Bacteria takes Nitrogen from air and put it into soil for plants to use

• Plants take nitrogen from the air and store in their roots

• Animals eat plants that have Nitrogen

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Phosphorus is found mainly in the atmosphere

• True

• False