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Cycles ReQuiz

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Question 1
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Match the terms of the water cycle

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Precipitation
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Gravity draws water back to Earth as rain, sleet, or snow
Transpiration
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Solar radiation changing water from a liquid to a gas
Runoff
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Water that is lost through the leaves of plants
Evaporation
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Water flowing from the surface of the Earth toward bodies of water
Infiltration
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Water percolating (filtering through) from the surface through the soil to aquifers
Question 2
2.

Match the terms of the Carbon Cycle

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Photosynthesis
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The process by with plants take in carbon dioxide and sunlight to make sugar
Ocean Exchange
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Returns Carbon CO2 into the atmosphere and is associated with breathing out
Atmospheric Carbon CO2
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When dead organisms are broken down
Combustion
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When something is burned - such as when you drive a car that runs on fossil fuels or a forest fire
Decomposition/Decay
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The carbon that surrounds the earth
Respiration
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Equilibrium of CO2 between the atmosphere and the ocean
Question 3
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Match the steps of the nitrogen cycle to their definition

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Denitrification
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The process of plants and animals taken in nitrogen
Nitrogen gas
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The process of converting nitrogen gas into a usable form, by either bacteria or lightning
Assimilation
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Process where a type of bacteria, changes the useable nitrogen in the soil, back to nitrogen gas
Nitrogen fixation
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Bacteria converting nitrogen compounds into NH3 (ammonia) or NH4+ (ammonium)
Nitrification
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makes up about 78% of Earth's atmosphere by volume
Ammonification
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Bacteria converting ammonia (NH3) to nitrates (NO3) and nitrites (NO2)
Question 4
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Match the terms with their definitions

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Animal consumption
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The main phosphorus reservoir
Phosphates in water
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Water moving over rocks, washing phosphorus into rivers and streams
Rocks and soil
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Where phosphorus mixes with oxygen to make phosphates
Plant absorbtion
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Water containing phosphates is absorbed by plants
Decomposition
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Plants are eaten by consumers to get the phosphate they need
Erosion
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Phosphorus is broken down in waste and returned to water or soil
Marine sedimentation
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Large amounts of phosphorus are carried by waterways into the ocean where it concentrates at the bottom as rocks
Question 5
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On the diagram below, draw arrows to show how carbon is cycled through the carbon cycle and label the following terms : 1) Precipitation, 2) Runoff, 3) Transpiration, 4) Infiltration, 5) Condensation, 6) Evaporation

Question 6
6.

Diagram (show the arrows of flow) the six steps of the carbon cycle. Next to the arrow use the letter that describes which step of the carbon cycle the arrow represents.
A - Atmospheric Carbon (CO2)
B - Photosynthesis
C - Respiration
D - Ocean Exchange
E - Combustion
F - Decomposition (Decay)

Question 7
7.

Diagram how nitrogen moves through the cycle

Question 8
8.

Diagram the phosphorous cycle