Chapter 4 Test Practice

The continuous movement of water between Earth’s surface and the air

• Nitrogen Cycle

• Water Cycle

• Carbon Cycle

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The continuous exchange of carbon among living things

• Nitrogen Cycle

• Water Cycle

• Carbon Cycle

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The continual trapping of nitrogen gas into compounds in the soil and its return to the air

• Nitrogen Cycle

• Water Cycle

• Carbon Cycle

Any form of water that falls from the atmosphere and reaches the ground, such as rain, sleet, snow or hail

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Runoff

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The changing of a liquid into a gas, usually driven by the sun’s energy (heat)

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Runoff

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The changing of a gas into a liquid due to cooling atmospheric temperatures often resulting in water droplets that form around dust particles creating clouds

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Runoff

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Precipitation that flows across the land’s surface and is not absorbed, but instead flows into rivers, lakes and streams

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Denitrification

• Runoff

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Water that settles underground and is stored in tiny pores within soil and rock

• Runoff

• Groundwater

• Standing-water

• Running-water

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A mixture of dead organic material that can be used as fertilizer.

• Wetland

• Estuary

• Compost

• Nekton

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An area from which water is drained.

• Watershed

• Biome

• Oceanic Zone

• Intertidal Zone

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