APES 1.4-1.7 Cycles

Which process takes Carbon Dioxide from the air and converts it into a form of carbon used by living things?

• Precipitation
• Photosynthesis
• Respiration
• Bioremdiation

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Cellular respiration is the process by which ____________ is consumed and _______________ is produced.

• Carbon, Oxygen

• Oxygen, Carbon dioxide

• H20, oxygen

• Carbon, H2O

How does carbon dioxide leave the atmosphere?

• Through transpiration
• Through photosynthesis
• Through factory emission
• Sunlight

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A particular golf course is using large amounts of nitrogen fertilizer. What process could move this nitrogen into a local stream?

• volatilization
• nitrogen fixation
• runoff
• ammonification

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A particular golf course is using large amounts of nitrogen fertilizer. What process could move this nitrogen into a local stream?

• volatilization
• nitrogen fixation
• runoff
• ammonification

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Organisms use nitrogen to form

• carbohydrates and lipids
• proteins and lipids
• lipids and nucleic acids
• proteins and nucleic acids

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When nitrogen gas is turned in to a form that plants and animals can use is called 

• Combustion
• Photosynthesis
• Decomposition
• Nitrogen Fixation

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What happens when organisms die and decay? 

• Their nitrogen moves to the air as nitrogen gas
• Their nitrogen returns to the soil as ammonium
• Their nitrogen becomes tapped in clay and is unusable
• They stay on earth forever

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Carbon dioxide is added to the atmosphere by

• Burning fossil fuels 
• Cellular respiration
• Decomposing organic matter
• All answers are correct

The process of plants losing water through their leaves is called ____.

• condensation
• evaporation
• transpiration
• exhaling

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