Cycle Warm up #1
Name __________________________
(10 pts)
1.
During this process, liquid changes into gas. ( 1 pt)
2.
During this process, plants return water to the atmosphere through stomata. (1 pt)
3. When gas turns to liquid, this process is called _______________________. (1 pt)
4. Clouds, oceans, lakes, ponds, and people are all examples of __________________________ of
water. (1 pt)
5. This is the statement that matter can neither be created nor destroyed. (1 pt)
6. Water is returned to the earth through a process called ___________________________. (1 pt)
7. The sum of all the liquid changed to gas and the water returned to the atmosphere from plants
is called ______________________________________. (1 pt)
8.
When the ground becomes saturated, sometimes water travels downhill in the form of
________________________. (1 pt)
9.
What are the Earth’s 2 main sources of energy? (2 pts)
Cycle Warm up #2
Name ________________________
(7 pts)
1)
During photosynthesis, plants are able to absorb sunlight because of the presence of a
pigment called _________________________. (1 pt)
2)
6CO2
+
6H2O ________________________ + 6O2 (1 pt)
3) In plants, glucose can be used to make _____________________________, which is a
substance found in cell walls to make them rigid in the absence of a skeletal system. (1 pt)
4) The atmosphere, fossil fuels, plants, and animals are all examples of
_________________________ of carbon. (1 pt)
5) Without plants there would be no animals, and without animals the lives of plants would be
more difficult. A primary reason for this is that animals inhale ____________________ and
exhale CO2, while plants take in _____________________ and release
__________________. (3 pts)
Cycle Warm up #3
Name ________________________
(12 pts)
1.
Amino acids contain N and they are the building blocks of ___________________. (1 pt)
2. What percent of the air we breathe is nitrogen gas? (1 pt)
3. When nitrogen gas from the air is changed to a form plants can use, like ammonia, this process
is called _____________ _________________________. (1 pt)
4. Plants that have bacteria found in nodules on their roots that fix nitrogen are called
____________________. (1 pt)
5. There are _________ amino acids. We make ______ of them and we get the other _______
from the food we eat. (3 pts)
6. Corn is a legume. (1 pt)
True
or
False
7. What are 2 ways we return nitrogen back to the atmosphere or soil naturally? (2 pts)
8.
What are 2 ways nitrogen is fixed? (2 pts)