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Nutrient Cycle Reading

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16 questions

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Question 1

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List the three common nutrients

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Question 13

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How does nitrogen return to the soil?

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Question 2

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Where do plants obtain nutrients from?

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Liquid water changes into vapor (gas) and enters the air through 

Transpiration

Evaporation

Condensation

Precipitation 

Water returns to the earth by rain, hail, sleet, or snow by 

Transpiration

Evaporation

Condensation

Precipitation 

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When a consumer eats a producer, the nutrients in the producer pass to the 

producer

consumer

decomposer

What returns the nutrients to the cycle?

producers

herbivore

detritivores (decomposers)

top consumer

During photosynthesis, producers change carbon dioxide into

protein

nucleic acids

lipids

carbohydrates

What gas is produced by photosynthesis?

oxygen

carbon dioxide

nitrogen

helium

Autotrophs and heterotrophs release carbon dioxide into the air through what process?

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cellular respiration

photosynthesis

osmosis

Organisms need what nutrient to produce proteins?

oxygen

nitrogen

carbon

hydrogen

What process of capturing and changing nitrogen into a form that plants use?

Evaporation

Condensation

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Nitrogen Fixation

How does nitrogen enter the food web?

through decomposers

through plant

through the air

through water

The process where bacteria in the soil change nitrogen compounds into nitrogen gas is called

A. Osmosis

B. Evaporation

C. Dentrification

D. Nitrogen Fixation

Phosphorus is used to make

A. bones and teeth

B. hair

C. skin

D. tissue

In the long-term cycle, phosphorus is added to soil from weathering or erosion of rocks that contain phosphorus.

True

False