Hydrologic and Carbon Cycles

What is responsible for moving the water to the ground?

• monkeys

• air pressure

• density

• gravity

Why is wind important to the water cycle?

• it helps move clouds so water can be moved to drier areas

• it helps with condensation

When water evaporates from plants, this is called

• evapotranspiration

• perspriation

oceans are salty because (choose all that apply)

• streams and rivers carry dissolved nutrients into oceans

• organisms release salty waste

• when water evaporates, nutrients do not evaporate with it

What organisms photosynthesize?  Pick 2

• animals

• plants

• fungi

• phytoplankton

What organisms respire?

• only plants

• only animals

• Plants and aminals both

• Neither plants nor animals

what two ways do phytoplankton use carbon?

• food

• respiration

• photosynthesis

• calcium carbonate shells

Carbon is taken out of the atmosphere through

• cellular respiration

• photosynthesis

When plants take in carbon it can be released back in the atmosphere through cellular respiration, eaten by animals in the form of sugar, or

• released back into the ground through decomposition

• released back into the atmosphere through photosynthesis

plants and ____ are major carbon reserviors

• water

• fossil fuels