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- 1. Multiple ChoiceWhich best explains why runoff is important?It returns water to other locations on EarthIt increases the chance of floodingIt makes evaporation occur fasterIt increases condensation
- 2. Multiple ChoiceSnow, sleet, hail, and rain are all examples of ________________.evaporationcondensationaccumulationprecipitation
- 3. Multiple Choice
What do you call it when water forms a gas?
EVAPORATION
PRECIPITATION
TRANSPIRATION
- 4. Multiple ChoiceWhat is it called when plants give off water vapor as a waste product?condensationevaporationsublimationtranspiration
- 5. Multiple ChoiceWhen water _________, dew forms.MeltsEvaporatesCondensesPrecipitates
- 6. Multiple ChoiceOn which kind of day would you expect the most evaporation from the surface of a pond?cold, rainycold, sunnywarm, rainywarm, sunny
- 7. Multiple ChoiceWhat is water vapor?Water on the land (geosphere)Water in the air (atmosphere)Water in plantsWater in the water (hydrosphere)
- 8. Multiple Choice
What converts nitrogen gas into a usable form for plants and animals?
bacteria
rain
fungi
car exhaust
- 9. Multiple Choice
The process in which nitrogen circulates and is recycled is called
The nitrogen cycle
The carbon cycle
The water cycle
The phosphorus cycle
- 10. Multiple Choice
Organisms that need nitrogen to survive.
only plants
only animals
only bacteria
all living things
- 11. Multiple Choice
How do animals get the nitrogen they need?
From the air they breathe
From the water they drink
From the food they eat
From the sun
- 12. Multiple Choice
Gas that makes up 78% of our atmosphere.
Oxygen
Nitrogen
Hydrogen
Carbon Dioxide
- 13. Multiple Choice
What is the process of combining nitrogen gas with other elements to make nitrogen into usable compounds?
nitrogen composition
nitrogen fixation
ammonia
denitrification
- 14. Multiple Choice
Plants and animals cannot use nitrogen directly from the air.
True
False
- 15. Multiple Choice
Bacteria fix nitrogen from the atmosphere into a form plants can use.
True
False
- 16. Multiple ChoiceWhen humans burn fossil fuels, most of the carbon quickly enters the as carbon dioxide.WaterAtmosphereSunAir
- 17. Multiple ChoiceWhich one of these does not add CO2 to the atmosphere?cooking with gasplanting treesburning woodriding in a bus
- 18. Multiple ChoiceWhat does not produce carbon dioxide?PhotosynthesisBurning Fossil FuelsAnimal respirationPlants decaying
- 19. Multiple ChoiceIn the carbon cycle, producers take in the gas __carbon dioxideoxygennitrogencarbon monoxide
- 20. Multiple ChoiceHow does the carbon in grass become part of a lion?The lion eats the grassCarbon from grass doesn't end up in a lion.The carbon ends up in the lion's food chain.The lion breathes in carbon given out by the plant
- 21. Multiple ChoiceAll of the carbon in existence is continually recycled in the carbon cycleTrueFalse
- 22. Multiple ChoiceIf the plant population decreased, the amount of carbon would _________.Stay the sameIncreaseDecrease
- 23. Multiple ChoiceCarbon can be found in...The atmosphereSoilFossil fuelsAll of the above
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