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Water, Carbon, Nitrogen and Nitrogen Cycle
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1Name three important needs for water.
- ADrinking, Washing, Cleaning.
- BCellular Respiration, Digestion, Photosythesis.
- CPhotosynthesis, Digestion, Human Use
2What are macronutrients?
- ANutrients used in big amounts.
- BNutrients used in small amounts.
- CBig puzzle pieces.
3What percent of the air is nitrogen?
- A70%
- B78%
- C94%
4Why is phosphorous an important biological molecule ?
- AIt takes part in food, cells, and plants.
- BIt takes part in photosynthesis, and it is used in the cell membrane.
- CIt takes part in photosynthesis, nucleic acids, and phospholipids.
5How is water distributed through the biosphere?
- ARain and evaporation.
- BPrecipitation and evaporation.
- CSnow and evaporation.
6What are micronutrients?
- ANutrients used in small amounts.
- BNutrients used in large amounts.
7Why is nitrogen essential to life?
- AIt's necessary for us to breathe.
- BIt's a part of amino and nucleic acids.
- CIt's part of nucleic acids and cell membrane.
8What happens to phosphorous that erodes from rock and soil?
- AIt dissolves and washes into rivers and streets.
- BIt stays in the rock until it slowly dissolves in a process of five years.
- CIt never dissolves.
9Gravity draws water back to Earth.
- ATrue
- BFalse
10Transpiration is sweat.
- ATrue
- BFalse
11The soil in the ground determines what plants grow where.
- ATrue
- BFalse
12An aquifer is an permeable rock site where water can pass through easily and the water below this is also called groundwater.
- ATrue
- BFalse
13Seepage from Ground and Runoff from surface are two ways water travels from land to ocean.
- ATrue
- BFalse
14Runoff only includes flows from rivers and/or streams.
- ATrue
- BFalse
1580% of water enters the hydrologic cycle.
- ATrue
- BFalse
1655% of water fall back as rain in the hydrologic cycle.
- ATrue
- BFalse
17Most of the carbon located on Earth is in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.
- ATrue
- BFalse
18Carbon enters the biotic parts of the ecosystem through water.
- ATrue
- BFalse
19The function of plants in the forest is to take carbon dioxide and turn it into oxygen.
- ATrue
- BFalse
20Carbon dioxide is returned to the atmosphere when any living thing exhales.
- ATrue
- BFalse
21A primary producer is a living thing that can make food on its own.
- ATrue
- BFalse
22When primary and secondary consumers die the carbon stays in their bodies.
- ATrue
- BFalse
23Detritus feeders don't contribute in anything at all in the carbon cycle.
- ATrue
- BFalse
24Fossil fuels are oils, gasses, and coal.
- ATrue
- BFalse
25Carbon gets in the ocean because it's in the atmosphere and seashells also release it.
- ATrue
- BFalse
26Plants and animals get nitrogen from nitrogen fixation if they can't get it from the atmosphere.
- ATrue
- BFalse
27Nitrogen fixing bacteria turn the nitrogen into nitrogen gas.
- ATrue
- BFalse
28Air is a major reservoir for ammonia.
- ATrue
- BFalse
29Herbivores need nitrogen because they eat plants and plants need nitrogen.
- ATrue
- BFalse
30Dentrification is the process in which carbon is converted into energy.
- ATrue
- BFalse
31There's no phosphorous in plants or animals.
- ATrue
- BFalse
32Phosphates return to the ecosystem and/or plants when an animal or a plant dies.
- ATrue
- BFalse
33Phosphorous carried by runoff to the oceans gets concentrated in: marine rocks, fish's body, sea plants.
- ATrue
- BFalse
34Phosphates are incorporated into aquatic plants and animals by water.
- ATrue
- BFalse
35The difference between the phosphorous cycle and the water, carbon and nitrogen cycle is in phosphorous's cycle phosphates never return to the atmosphere.
- ATrue
- BFalse
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