Water, Carbon, Nitrogen and Nitrogen Cycle

Question 1

Name three important needs for water.

Accepted Answer

Cellular Respiration, Digestion, Photosythesis.

Answer

Drinking, Washing, Cleaning.

Answer

Photosynthesis, Digestion, Human Use

Question 2

What are macronutrients?

Accepted Answer

Nutrients used in big amounts.

Answer

Nutrients used in small amounts.

Answer

Big puzzle pieces.

Question 3

What percent of the air is nitrogen?

Accepted Answer

78%

Answer

70%

Answer

94%

Question 4

Why is phosphorous an important biological molecule ?

Accepted Answer

It takes part in photosynthesis, nucleic acids, and phospholipids.

Answer

It takes part in food, cells, and plants.

Answer

It takes part in photosynthesis, and it is used in the cell membrane.

Question 5

How is water distributed through the biosphere?

Accepted Answer

Precipitation and evaporation.

Answer

Rain and evaporation.

Answer

Snow and evaporation.

Question 6

What are micronutrients?

Accepted Answer

Nutrients used in small amounts.

Answer

Nutrients used in large amounts.

Question 7

Why is nitrogen essential to life?

Accepted Answer

It's a part of amino and nucleic acids.

Answer

It's necessary for us to breathe.

Answer

It's part of nucleic acids and cell membrane.

Question 8

What happens to phosphorous that erodes from rock and soil?

Accepted Answer

It dissolves and washes into rivers and streets.

Answer

It stays in the rock until it slowly dissolves in a process of five years.

Answer

It never dissolves.

Question 9

Gravity draws water back to Earth.

Answer

true

Question 10

Transpiration is sweat.

Answer

true

Question 11

The soil in the ground determines what plants grow where.

Answer

true

Question 12

An aquifer is an permeable rock site where water can pass through easily and the water below this is also called groundwater.

Answer

true

Question 13

Seepage from Ground and Runoff from surface are two ways water travels from land to ocean.

Answer

true

Question 14

Runoff only includes flows from rivers and/or streams.

Answer

true

Question 15

80% of water enters the hydrologic cycle.

Answer

true

Question 16

55% of water fall back as rain in the hydrologic cycle.

Answer

true

Question 17

Most of the carbon located on Earth is in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.

Answer

true

Question 18

Carbon enters the biotic parts of the ecosystem through water.

Answer

true

Question 19

The function of plants in the forest is to take carbon dioxide and turn it into oxygen.

Answer

true

Question 20

Carbon dioxide is returned to the atmosphere when any living thing exhales.

Answer

true

Question 21

A primary producer is a living thing that can make food on its own.

Answer

true

Question 22

When primary and secondary consumers die the carbon stays in their bodies.

Answer

true

Question 23

Detritus feeders don't contribute in anything at all in the carbon cycle.

Answer

true

Question 24

Fossil fuels are oils, gasses, and coal.

Answer

true

Question 25

Carbon gets in the ocean because it's in the atmosphere and seashells also release it.

Answer

true

Question 26

Plants and animals get nitrogen from nitrogen fixation if they can't get it from the atmosphere.

Answer

true

Question 27

Nitrogen fixing bacteria turn the nitrogen into nitrogen gas.

Answer

true

Question 28

Air is a major reservoir for ammonia.

Answer

true

Question 29

Herbivores need nitrogen because they eat plants and plants need nitrogen.

Answer

true

Question 30

Dentrification is the process in which carbon is converted into energy.

Answer

true

Question 31

There's no phosphorous in plants or animals.

Answer

true

Question 32

Phosphates return to the ecosystem and/or plants when an animal or a plant dies.

Answer

true

Question 33

Phosphorous carried by runoff to the oceans gets concentrated in: marine rocks, fish's body, sea plants.

Answer

true

Question 34

Phosphates are incorporated into aquatic plants and animals by water.

Answer

true

Question 35

The difference between the phosphorous cycle and the water, carbon and nitrogen cycle is in phosphorous's cycle phosphates never return to the atmosphere.

Answer

true

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