Nutrient Cycles

What is one way that people add Nitrogen into the environment?

• By littering
• By using fertilizer on farms
• By burning fossil fuels 

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

True or False: Plants are primary consumers of carbon dioxide.

• True
• False

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

True or False: Humans and animals release carbon dioxide into the air during photosynthesis and respiration.

• True
• False 

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

True or False: All of the carbon in existence is continually recycled in the carbon cycle.

• True
• False

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Where does the carbon come from that plants use?

• Animals
• Water
• Air
• Connecticut

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

What is it called when water vapor cools and changes into a liquid?

• condensation
• respiration
• precipitation
• evaporation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Which of the following is NOT a stage of the nitrogen cycle?

• organisms breathe in nitrogen gas
• organisms release nitrogen compounds via waste or decomposition
• bacteria convert unusable nitrogen to usable nitrogen
• plants absorb nitrogen compounds from the soil

The three steps of the water cycle include:

• condensation, precipitation, filtration
• filtration, irrigation, evaporation
• precipitation, condensation, evaporation
• precipitation, filtration, evaporation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Which of the following is NOT part of the carbon cycle?

• condensation
• photosynthesis
• combustion
• respiration

Which of these is the greatest cause of harmful levels of carbon in the atmosphere?

• respiration
• combustion
• photosynthesis
• decomposition

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4