Cycles Flashcards

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1
Q

Which cycle does not follow the chemical cycling?

A

Carbon cycle

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2
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Through what process does carbon leave the atmosphere?

A

Photosynthesis

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3
Q

What types of organisms do photosynthesis?

A

Plants

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4
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List the ways/ process that carbon is released back into the atmosphere

A

Combustion, cellular respiration, decomposition

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5
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What do all organisms do?

A

Cellular respiration

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6
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What do all humans do?

A

Combustion

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7
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What is transpiration, and what cycle is it part of?

A

Water is lost in plants. Water cycle

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8
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What process takes nitrogen out of the atmosphere and makes it USEABLE for autotrophs?

A

Nitrogen Fixation

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9
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What types of organisms do Nitrogen fixation?

A

Bacteria

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10
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What other organism do bacteria sometimes have associations with? What part of the organism do they live in?

A

Plants, they live on their roots

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11
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What type of

co-evolutionary relationship would bacteria living on a plant be?

A

Commensalism (+,0)

Bacteria benefits, plant is not effected

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12
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How do animals and other heterotrophs get the nitrogen and carbon they need?

A

They eat it

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13
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What is in the carbon oxygen cycle?

A

Cellular respiration, combustion, decomposition

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14
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What is in the nitrogen cycle

A

Decomposition, nitrogen fixation,

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15
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What is in the water cycle?

A

Condensation, evaporation, precipitation, transpiration

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16
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What are the 3 steps in the basic pattern of chemical cycling?

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  1. Producers use photosynthesis and it becomes an organic compound
  2. Consumers feed on the producers, incorporating some of the chemicals back into their own bodies, and then poop it out
  3. Organisms die, decomposes break them down, cycle continues