Cycles of Matter & Biomes Test Review

What part does an animal play in the nitrogen cycle?

Three examples of precipitation.

What process of the carbon/oxygen cycles uses oxygen from the atmosphere?

Nitrogen, as a compound, that has been changed by bacteria & absorbed by a plant/animal is...

What changes free nitrogen into fixed nitrogen?

Anorganism that can make its own food through photosynthesis is called…?

Trees have cones and adapted leaves, called needles. Mild summersand very cold/snowy winters.

Theclimate of an area is mostly determined by these two factors?

Whattransforms nitrogen gas(free) into a form that plants/animals/humans can use?

What is the process by which nitrogen gas is transformed into a nitrogen compound by bacteria?

The step of the water cycle when waterchanges into a gas?

Bacterialive on the roots of plants, plants receive nitrogen, bacteria a home.

What are the two main groups of decomposers?

This biome is similar to temperate grassland but closer to equator, scattered trees, more rain.

What process of the Carbon/Oxygen Cycle uses the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?

A group of ecosystems with similar climate, plants & animals is called

Anextremely cold and dry land biome?

Whichbiome is where freshwater rivers meet and mix with saltwater oceans?

Aland biome that receives less than 25cm of precipitation each year?

This is the world's largest biome and is divided into four major zones.

Howdo most animals & humans get their nitrogen?

Coverslarge areas of central North America, no trees, can also behome to many large herbivores

This biome is called the tropical rainforest of the marine biome because it is so diverse.

Four distinct seasons. Trees shed their leaves during the coldmonths and later grow new ones.

Nitrogen, as a gas, in the atmosphere is called

Average temperatures and annual precipitation amounts describe a biome's

Thelayer of soil, in the tundra, that remains frozen all year is called…?

Howdoes matter move throughout our ecosystems?

Theland biome that contains the most diverse group of plants and animals?

Thestep of the water cycle when water vapor turns back into liquid water?