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Environmental Science Review

Total questions: 27

Worksheet time: 54mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the vocab term of Precipitation?

a)

Water leaving atmosphere to surface

b)

Water moving from atmosphere to surface

c)

rain leaving atmosphere to surface

d)

rain moving atmosphere to surface

2.

Transpiration is water (a)   from plants.

3.

Why is the ocean salty?

(a)  

4.

A Runoff is..

a)

flow of water over the ground surface

b)

flow of lava

c)

flow of water under the surface

d)

all of the above

5.

Percolation is the water moving into the (a)   .

6.

Aquifer is...

a)

underground water

b)

inground water

c)

ground water

d)

evaporation water

7.

Convection is the...

a)

movement of a liquid

b)

movement of a gas

c)

movement of a fluid

d)

movement of a solid

8.

What is the Phosphorus sink/reservoir?

(a)  

9.

How do I get my Phosphorous?

a)

plants

b)

Eating

c)

drinking

d)

sleeping

10.

Which one is not found in the atmosphere?

a)

Nitrogen

b)

atoms

c)

Phosphorous

d)

oxygen

11.

How does Phosphorus get into the environment?

a)

Mining facilities

b)

weathering

c)

Erosion

d)

Trees

12.

What is this a picture of?

a)

Phosphorus cycle

b)

Weather cycle

c)

Life cycle

d)

The cycle

13.

Erosion and Weathering are the.......

a)

totally different

b)

around the same

c)

opposite

d)

same

14.

Why do we need Phosphorus?

a)

all of the above

b)

to live and survive

c)

to move

d)

to die

15.

Cool,oil, natural gas are

(a)  

16.

Steps of phosphorous cycle are.....

a)

none of the above

b)

Weathering,

c)

all above

d)

Weathering, uplift, Leaching ,decomposition ,absorption from soil and Feeding

17.

What do humans extract phosphorus from rocks for?

a)

Steel

b)

chair

c)

matches

d)

minning

18.

Plants take in nitrogen from (a)   .

19.

Animals take in nitrogen (a)   eating.

20.

Nitrogen ends up back in the soil from living organisms by it (a)  

21.

what is the sink for nitrogen?

a)

atmosphere

b)

ocean

c)

air

d)

ground

22.

this image is a example of the....

a)

weather cycle

b)

nitrogen cycle

c)

Phosphorus cycle

d)

carbon cycle

23.

What does the red represent in the Carbon cycle in the image?

a)

carbon from immune emissions

b)

nitrogen from immune emissions

c)

none of the above

d)

all the above

24.

How much percent is of the air around us, Nitrogen.

a)

78%

b)

40%

c)

68%

d)

10%

25.

Nitrogen Fixation is accomplished by...

a)

lightning

b)

man made

c)

fire

d)

bacteria

26.

Nitrogen is a

(a)  

27.

THe phosphorus cycle is different from other biogeochemical

cycles in that it does not have a gaseous stage in the....

a)

atmosphere

b)

ocean

c)

air

d)

ground