Earth's Cycles

What is the process by which water on the ground surface enters the soil?

• Watershed

• Surface Run-Off

• Infiltration

• Hydrologic Cycle

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What is the process called that involves the circulation of carbon between living (biotic) and nonliving (abiotic) parts of an ecosystem?

• Photosynthesis

• Ocean surface

• Carbon cycle

• Fossil fuels

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Which of the following contains huge amounts of carbon, mostly in calcite and limestone, and overlaps the rock cycle?

• Vegetation

• Ocean surface

• Sediments and sedimentary rocks

• Photosynthesis

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What happens to minerals from rocks when rain dissolves them?

• They evaporate into the atmosphere.

• They are absorbed by plants.

• They get washed into the sea and added to sediments at the bottom of the ocean.

• They turn into soil.

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Which cycle is not one of the four major cycles that occur on Earth?

• Water Cycle

• Carbon Cycle

• Nitrogen Cycle

• Energy Cycle

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Earth's ice ages can be explained by Milankovitch Cycles. What causes these three cycles?

• Sunspots and solar flares on the Sun's surface

• Changes in the force of gravity of the Sun and the moon

• Changes in the number of rainforests on the Earth

• Changes in Earth's orbit and position in space

How long after a new moon will it take to see another new moon?

• 12 days

• 27.3 days

• 29.5 days

• 365 days

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The process of bacteria in the soil changing extra nitrates back into atmospheric nitrogen so that it can reenter the atmosphere & continue the cycle is known as _____.

• ammonification

• nitrification

• fixation

• denitrification

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The burning of fossil fuels contributes to the carbon cycle in what way?

• Increases the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere

• Increases the amount of O2 in the atmosphere

• Decreases the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere

• Decreases the amount of O2 in the atmosphere

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Water evaporating from the surface of a lake moves from the...

• Atmosphere to the geosphere 

• Geosphere to the hydrosphere 

• Hydrosphere to the atmosphere 

• Atmosphere to the hydrosphere 

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