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Nutrient Cycles Review
You will have a quiz sometime this week over the Water, Carbon and nitrogen cycle as well as
the processes that are used to move these nutrients through the environment. To review, please
fill out the information below to summarize these cycles.
Water Cycle
Why is the water cycle important?
Summarize the following processes and list where water travels to and from including its form
Evaporation:
Condensation:
Precipitation:
Runoff:
Infiltration:
Transpiration:
How do humans have an impact on the water cycle?
Carbon Cycle
Why is carbon such and important molecule?
Where is carbon found in environments?
Summarize the following processes and list where carbon travels to and from
Fossil Fuel Formation:
Fossil Fuel Combustion:
Respiration:
Consumption:
Decomposition:
Air and Sea Exchange:
What are some ways the humans negatively impact the environment via carbon uses and what
are the consequences?
Nitrogen Cycle
How much of Earth’s atmosphere is made up of nitrogen?
What are the 3 forms nitrogen is found in within the environment
Summarize the following processes and list where nitrogen travels to and from including its form
Nitrogen Fixation:
Assimilation:
Ammonification:
Nitrification:
Denitrification:
What is one way that humans negatively impact the environment via nitrogen uses and what
occurs?