Biogeochemical Cycles

The process of plants losing water through their leaves is called ____.

• condensation
• evaporation
• transpiration
• exhaling

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What is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere?

• hydrogen
• oxygen
• helium
• nitrogen

Where is carbon stored in the environment?

• Fossil fuels
• Wood of trees
• Calcium carbonate (shells and bones)
• All of the above

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When plants perform __________________ they take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and release oxygen. 

• Cellular Respiration
• Photosynthesis
• Nitrogen Cycle 
• Aerobic Respiration

Cutting down forests and burning fossil fuels _______________ the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. 

• Increases
• Decreases
• Doesn't change

________________ is cycled through deforestation, absorption, burning fossil fuels and decomposition. 

• Carbon
• Nitrogen
• Oxygen
• Phosphorus

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The process by which water falls onto earth's surface is known as:

• Condensation

• Evaporation

• Precipitation

• Transpiration

Clouds are formed by which process?

• Evaporation

• Precipitation

• Run off

• Condensation

How does carbon in a grass plant get into a lion?

• The lion eats the grass
• Carbon from grass doesn't end up in a lion. 
• The carbon ends up in the food the lion eats. 
• The lion breathes in carbon given out by the plant

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Which one of these does not add CO₂ to the atmosphere?

• cooking with gas

• planting trees

• burning wood