Biogeochemical Cycles

Question 1

Nitrite is converted to Nitrate by this bacteria

Answer 1

Nitrobacter

Question 2

a build up of nutrients, which can result in algal blooms in water which kill fish

Answer 2

Eutrophication

Question 3

Order of forms of nitrogen in the nitrogen cycle

Answer 3

Atmospheric nitrogen, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate

Question 4

Ammonia is converted to this by Nitrosomonas bacteria

Answer 4

Nitrite

Question 5

4 Places Carbon can be stored in the Carbon Cycle

Answer 5

Atmosphere, Plants, Animals, Ground

Question 6

21% of the atmosphere is this gas

Answer 6

Oxygen

Question 7

3 Locations in the Nitrogen cycle

Answer 7

Air, Plants, Roots (nodules)

Question 8

Can Carbon from the atmosphere or ground go straight to animals?

Answer 8

No

Question 9

<0.04% of the atmophere is this greenhouse gas

Answer 9

Carbon Dioxide

Question 10

cycle needed for photosynthetic activities and plant growth

Answer 10

Nitrogen Cycle

Question 11

Nitrate, Nitrite, and Ammonia are all converted to this by denitrifying bacteria

Answer 11

Atmospheric nitrogen

Question 12

Atmospheric nitrogen is converted to ammonia by this bacteria

Answer 12

Rhizobium

Question 13

Nitrite is converted to this by Nitrobacter bacteria

Answer 13

Nitrate

Question 14

Cycle that plants use for shoot production, flower production, and fruit and seed growth

Answer 14

Phosphorus Cycle

Question 15

Ecosystems dispose of wastes and replenish nutrients by recycling all elements

Answer 15

2nd Principle of Ecosystem Sustainibility

Question 16

3 Locations Phosphorus can be stored in the Phosphorus Cycle

Answer 16

Plants, animals, ground

Question 17

Nitrate, Nitrite, and Ammonia are all converted back to atmospheric nitrogen by this bacteria

Answer 17

Denitrifying bacteria

Question 18

78% of the atmosphere is this gas

Answer 18

Nitrogen

Question 19

Where do animals get carbon from in the carbon cycle?

Answer 19

Plants

Question 20

Cycle that is driven by the production of human fossil fuels

Answer 20

Carbon Cycle

Question 21

Atmospheric nitrogen is converted to this by Rhizobium bacteria

Answer 21

ammonia

Question 22

Phosphorus can only travel both ways between these two locations in the cycle

Answer 22

Plants and the ground

Question 23

Animals can get this form of nitrogen

Answer 23

Nitrate

Question 24

Ammonia is converted to Nitrite by this bacteria

Answer 24

Nitrosomonas