BioGeochemical cycles

Match the following

• when water vapor cools off and turns back into liquid

• Groundwater

• water retained beneath the surface of the earth

• Evaporation

• evaporation of water from plants

• Transpiration

• When surface water is heated up and turns back into water vapor

• Condensation

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Water is taken up by the ​ (a)   of plants. After water passes through the plant the water ​ (b)   from the plants and through ​ (c)   water evaporates from plants

• roots
• evaporates
• transpiration

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In the biogeochemical cycle ​ (a)   ​ are absorbed or ingested by organisms are passed on through the ​ (b)   chain and returned to the soil, air, and ​ (c)   by such mechanisms as ​ (d)   excretion and decomposition.

• chemicals
• food
• water
• respiration

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Which is NOT one of the 4 major substances that cycle through living organisms

• Carbon

• Water

• Nitrogen

• Phosphorus

• Cobalt

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In respiration organisms use ​ (a)   to combine chemically with ​ (b)   molecules during cellular ​ (c)  

• oxygen
• organic
• respiration

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Carbon returns to the atmosphere by ​ ​ (a)   through or burning, Carbon is stored in the bottom of the ​ (b)   ​ but due to ​ (c)   and pressure is changed to ​ (d)   fuels.

• combustion
• ocean
• heat
• fossil

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In Erosion ​ (a)   organisms use ​ (b)   dissolved in the sea water to make calcium carbonate shells. Over millions of years the shells of these organisms form ​ (c)   , as limestone becomes exposed and erodes the ​ (d)   becomes available to other organisms.

• marine
• carbon dioxide
• limestone
• Carbon

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Match the following

• carbon is released into the atmosphere through engines or burning

• Respiration

• when organisms breathe in oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide

• Combustion

• Shells made of limestone become exposed and erodes making carbon available to organisms

• Erosion

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Carbon ​ ​ (a)   are natural or artificial ​ ​ (b)   areas for carbon. The ​ (c)   is by far the largest natural carbon sink. ​ (d)   ​are the largest carbon sink on land.

• sinks
• storage
• Ocean
• Forests

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Organisms need ​ (a)   and phosphorus to build ​ (b)   and nucleic acids.

• Nitrogen
• proteins

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