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Cycles ReQuiz

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8 questions

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Match the terms of the water cycle

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

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Match the terms of the Carbon Cycle

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

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Match the steps of the nitrogen cycle to their definition

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

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Match the terms with their definitions

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
Decomposition		The main phosphorus reservoir
Plant absorbtion		Water moving over rocks, washing phosphorus into rivers and streams
Animal consumption		Where phosphorus mixes with oxygen to make phosphates
Marine sedimentation		Water containing phosphates is absorbed by plants
Phosphates in water		Plants are eaten by consumers to get the phosphate they need
Rocks and soil		Phosphorus is broken down in waste and returned to water or soil
Erosion		Large amounts of phosphorus are carried by waterways into the ocean where it concentrates at the bottom as rocks

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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

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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)

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Diagram how nitrogen moves through the cycle

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Diagram the phosphorous cycle