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Water, Carbon, Nitrogen and Nitrogen Cycle

Water, Carbon, Nitrogen and Nitrogen Cycle

Question 1 of 35

5

Name three important needs for water.

Select one of the following:

  • Drinking, Washing, Cleaning.

  • Cellular Respiration, Digestion, Photosythesis.

  • Photosynthesis, Digestion, Human Use

Explanation

Question 2 of 35

5

What are macronutrients?

Select one of the following:

  • Nutrients used in big amounts.

  • Nutrients used in small amounts.

  • Big puzzle pieces.

Explanation

Question 3 of 35

5

What percent of the air is nitrogen?

Select one of the following:

  • 70%

  • 78%

  • 94%

Explanation

Question 4 of 35

5

Why is phosphorous an important biological molecule ?

Select one of the following:

  • It takes part in food, cells, and plants.

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

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

Explanation

Question 5 of 35

5

How is water distributed through the biosphere?

Select one of the following:

  • Rain and evaporation.

  • Precipitation and evaporation.

  • Snow and evaporation.

Explanation

Question 6 of 35

1

What are micronutrients?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Nutrients used in small amounts.

  • Nutrients used in large amounts.

Explanation

Question 7 of 35

5

Why is nitrogen essential to life?

Select one of the following:

  • It's necessary for us to breathe.

  • It's a part of amino and nucleic acids.

  • It's part of nucleic acids and cell membrane.

Explanation

Question 8 of 35

5

What happens to phosphorous that erodes from rock and soil?

Select one of the following:

  • It dissolves and washes into rivers and streets.

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

  • It never dissolves.

Explanation

Question 9 of 35

1

Gravity draws water back to Earth.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 10 of 35

1

Transpiration is sweat.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 11 of 35

1

The soil in the ground determines what plants grow where.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 12 of 35

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 13 of 35

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 14 of 35

1

Runoff only includes flows from rivers and/or streams.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 15 of 35

1

80% of water enters the hydrologic cycle.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 16 of 35

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 17 of 35

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 18 of 35

1

Carbon enters the biotic parts of the ecosystem through water.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 19 of 35

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 20 of 35

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 21 of 35

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 22 of 35

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 23 of 35

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 24 of 35

1

Fossil fuels are oils, gasses, and coal.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 25 of 35

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 26 of 35

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 27 of 35

1

Nitrogen fixing bacteria turn the nitrogen into nitrogen gas.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 28 of 35

1

Air is a major reservoir for ammonia.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 29 of 35

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 30 of 35

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 31 of 35

1

There's no phosphorous in plants or animals.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 32 of 35

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 33 of 35

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 34 of 35

1

Phosphates are incorporated into aquatic plants and animals by water.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 35 of 35

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

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