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Cycles of Matter Section 3-3
Read the section and answer the following
questions in full sentences in your notes!
Cycles of Matter Section 3-3
Read the section and answer the following
questions in full sentences in your notes!
Cycles of Matter Section 3-3
Read the section and answer the following
questions in full sentences in your notes!
1. What is a biogeochemical cycle?
2. What two processes allow water to enter
the atmosphere?
3. Where is water stored on the Earth?
4. What processes put carbon dioxide into
the atmosphere?
5. What process takes carbon dioxide out of
the atmosphere?
6. In what form is carbon cycled through a
food chain?
7. In what form is most carbon stored as in
marine environments?
8. What can humans do to prevent excess
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
9. Why is nitrogen so important to all
organisms?
10. What form does nitrogen take in the
atmosphere?
11. What percent of the atmosphere is
made up of N2?
12. Can nitrogen gas be used by plants?
13. What forms of nitrogen can plants use?
14. What is nitrogen fixation? Describe
how this is a mutualistic relationship
between bacteria and a plant.
15. What is the purpose of denitrification?
16. How does human activity impact the
nitrogen cycle?
17. Why can too many synthetic fertilizers
be a detriment to the environment?
18. Why is phosphorus essential to life?
19. Does phosphorus enter the atmosphere?
20. Where is most of the phosphorus
found?
1. What is a biogeochemical cycle?
2. What two processes allow water to enter
the atmosphere?
3. Where is water stored on the Earth?
4. What processes put carbon dioxide into
the atmosphere?
5. What process takes carbon dioxide out of
the atmosphere?
6. In what form is carbon cycled through a
food chain?
7. In what form is most carbon stored as in
marine environments?
8. What can humans do to prevent excess
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
9. Why is nitrogen so important to all
organisms?
10. What form does nitrogen take in the
atmosphere?
11. What percent of the atmosphere is
made up of N2?
12. Can nitrogen gas be used by plants?
13. What forms of nitrogen can plants use?
14. What is nitrogen fixation? Describe
how this is a mutualistic relationship
between bacteria and a plant.
15. What is the purpose of denitrification?
16. How does human activity impact the
nitrogen cycle?
17. Why can too many synthetic fertilizers
be a detriment to the environment?
18. Why is phosphorus essential to life?
19. Does phosphorus enter the atmosphere?
20. Where is most of the phosphorus
found?
1. What is a biogeochemical cycle?
2. What two processes allow water to enter
the atmosphere?
3. Where is water stored on the Earth?
4. What processes put carbon dioxide into
the atmosphere?
5. What process takes carbon dioxide out of
the atmosphere?
6. In what form is carbon cycled through a
food chain?
7. In what form is most carbon stored as in
marine environments?
8. What can humans do to prevent excess
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
9. Why is nitrogen so important to all
organisms?
10. What form does nitrogen take in the
atmosphere?
11. What percent of the atmosphere is
made up of N2?
12. Can nitrogen gas be used by plants?
13. What forms of nitrogen can plants use?
14. What is nitrogen fixation? Describe
how this is a mutualistic relationship
between bacteria and a plant.
15. What is the purpose of denitrification?
16. How does human activity impact the
nitrogen cycle?
17. Why can too many synthetic fertilizers
be a detriment to the environment?
18. Why is phosphorus essential to life?
19. Does phosphorus enter the atmosphere?
20. Where is most of the phosphorus
found?