Human Interactions with the environment

The transfer of nitrogen from the atmosphere to the soil, to living organisms, and back to the atmosphere, like the water cycle is called the...

• water cycle

• nitrogen cycle

• carbon cycle

• rain cycle

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The organic circulation of carbon from the atmosphere into organisms and back again, like the water cycle is called the...

• water cycle

• nitrogen cycle

• bicycle

• carbon cycle

The natural situation in which heat is retained in Earth's atmosphere by carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, and other gases is called the

• heat cycle

• greenhouse effect

• greenhouse gases

• carbon cycle

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Resources

that come from the remains of long ago plants and animals to form coal,

oil and natural gas and are nonrenewable are often called...

• dino juice

• carbons

• fossil fuels

• energy

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Rain-containing

acids that form in the atmosphere when industrial gas emissions

(especially sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides) combine with water is

called...

• gas rain

• acid rain

• danger sleet

• dirty rain

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A

gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere

generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels

of carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, and other pollutants can be

called...

• planetary heating

• the warming option

• global heating

• global warming

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Any natural resource (as wood or solar energy) that can be replenished naturally with the passage of time is called a

• renewable resource

• non renewable resource

Materials found in nature that are used by living things

• biosphere

• ecosystems

• food

• natural resources

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The

thick mass of glacial ice and snow that permanently covers an area of

land, such as either of the polar regions or the peak of a mountain,

which is melting is called a ...

• volcanoes

• polar heat

• meting ice caps

• snow-capped mountains

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Which of these is a renewable energy resource that does not produce carbon dioxide?

• wind

• coal

• biomass

• fossil fuel