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Study Guide Honors Biology Test 12 Nutrient Cycles & Biomes
Please answer all questions in complete sentences on a separate piece of paper in your own words. Turn in with your Unit 12 folder check on Friday 4/11/14.
1. What is an aquifer?
2. What is a water shed?
3. What is a habitat?
4. What principle states that two competitors cannot coexist on the same limited resources (or niche)?
5. Identify the likely primary producers in the different biomes we studied
6. Draw and label the N cycle
7. Draw and label the water cycle.
8. Draw and label the C cycle
9. Draw and label the phosphorous cycle.
10. What are the processes, features, and significance of the water cycle?
11. What are the processes, features, and significance of the N cycle?
12. What are the processes, features, and significance of the C cycle?
13. What are the processes, features, and significance of the phosphorous cycle?
14. Which type of bacteria transform nitrate back into nitrogen gas
15. What do the following types of bacteria do? a.nitrogen fixing b.denitrifying c.nitrifying
16. Nitrogen fixing bacteria converts which compound into what new compound?
17. List the 4 groups of macromolecules and how C, N, and phosphorous help to make them up.
18. A plant captures carbon dioxide during the process of photosynthesis. List the most likely path of carbon from that point on.
19. Compare and contrast the 4 nutrient cycles we studied.
20. What is biomass?
21. Which biological processes are part of the C cycle?
22. Approximately what percentage of earth’s water is in the oceans?
23. Approximately what percentage of earth’s water is fresh water?
24. Combustion is a part of which nutrient cycle?
25. What type of organism is primarily responsible for converting nitrogen to a usable form?
26. What is a biome?
27. Where in the levels of ecological organization do biomes fit?
28. How do different latitudes, altitudes, and geographical regions of Earth impact the terrestrial biomes?
29. What abiotic factors primarily determine which organisms live in a particular biome?
30. What biotic factors primarily determine which organisms live in a particular biome?
Possible Essay Questions.
These can also be multiple choice questions.
1. Compare and contrast how plants and animals obtain water, N, C and phosphorous.
2. Please draw and label the carbon cycle.
3. Please draw and label the water cycle.
4. Compare and contrast the fundamental niche and the realized niche.
5. Which Biome did your group present on? Please describe it in detail, including
Animals found there
Plants found there
Geographic Distribution (where is this biome found on earth)
Climate, including rainfall and temperature range
Other abiotic factors
Unit 12 Honors Biology