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Nitrogen Cycle

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which definition best describes the Nitrogen Cycle?

a)

Converts nitrogen into a mineral

b)

How nitrogen circulates through the ecosystem

c)

How nitrogen is made into fertilizer

d)

How plants take up nitrogen

2.

Organisms that need nitrogen to survive.

a)

only plants

b)

only animals

c)

only bacteria

d)

all living things

3.

Gas that makes up 78% of our atmosphere.

a)

Oxygen

b)

Nitrogen

c)

Hydrogen

d)

Carbon Dioxide

4.

Plants and animals cannot use nitrogen directly from the air.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

The process that allows organisms to use nitrogen

a)

assimilation

b)

denitrification

c)

fixation

d)

ammonification

6.

A correct path that nitrogen could take would be

a)

air -> animals -> plants -> bacteria

b)

animals -> air -> bacteria -> plants

c)

bacteria -> air -> plants -> animals

d)

air -> bacteria -> plants -> animals

7.
What happens when organisms die and decay? 
a)
Their bodies are lifted up
b)
Their nitrogen returns to the soil
c)
they keep their nitrogen
d)
They stay on earth forever
8.
_____ is the conversion of organic nitrogen into ammonia
a)
Nitrogen Fixation
b)
Ammonification
c)
Denitrification
d)
Assimilation 
9.
Nitrification happens in the ______
a)
Air 
b)
Soil 
c)
Ground Water 
d)
Plants 
10.

Majority of nitrogen fixation occurs by

a)

Biological nitrogen fixing organisms

b)

Lightning

c)

volcanic eruptions

d)

Haber–Bosch process