GHERIANY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS

SCIENCE DEPARTMENT

ASSIGNMENT NO 5

1.How animals get the nitrogen they need

A. from the Sun
B. from the water they drink
C. from the food they eat
D. from the air they breathe
2.Organisms that need nitrogen to survive
A. all living organisms
B. only animals
C. only plants
D. only bacteria
3.Organisms that play a role in the nitrogen cycle
A. only animals
B. only bacteria
C. only plants
D. plants, animals, & bacteria
4.How nitrogen is "fixed" into useable form for plants
A. only through action of bacteria
B. through action of bacteria & lightning
C. only through lightning
5.Organism that breaks down dead plants & animals and releases nitrogen back
into atmosphere
A. plants
B. bacteria
C. producers
D. animals
6.How plants get the nitrogen they need
A. from the air
B. from the soil or water in which they live
C. from the Sun
D. from broken down rocks
7.Gas that makes up almost 80% of Earth's atmosphere
A. carbon dioxide
B. hydrogen
C. oxygen
D. nitrogen
8.What is the process of combining nitrogen gas with other elements to make
nitrogen into usable compounds?
A. nitrogen composition
B. denitrification
C. nitrogen fixation
D. ammonia
9.What process occurs when dead plant and animal matter decomposes and
nitrogen is released back into the atmosphere?
A. Assimilation
B. Denitrification
C. Ammonification
D. Fixation
10.

According to this diagram, plants use nitrogen to make

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A. animals
B. bacteria
C. proteins
D. decomposers
11.

According to this diagram, plants absorb

A. nitrates
B. decomposers
C. nitrogen fixing bacteria
D. animals
12.A correct path that nitrogen could take would be
A. bacteria -> air -> plants -> animals
B. air -> bacteria -> plants -> animals
C. animals -> air -> bacteria -> plants
D. air -> animals -> plants -> bacteria
13.Bacteria fix nitrogen from the atmosphere into a form plants can use.
A. False
B. True
14.What do free living bacteria in the soil do?
A. Make carbon dioxide for plants to go through photosynthesis
B. Help plants take in water
C. Turn atmospheric nitrogen into nitrates
D. Make clouds
15.What process occurs when dead plant and animal matter decomposes and
nitrogen is released back into the atmosphere?
A. Fixation
B. Denitrification
C. Assimilation
D. Ammonification