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Biogeochemical cycles

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  1. Include the processes only conducted by or within living organisms

  2. Pertain only to the abiotic environment

  3. Describe the movement of water and other materials throughout the abiotic and biotic environment

  4. Are used to describe the attempts of humans to recycle various pollutants

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:
Breaking apart the word biogeochemical into pieces. The first part of the word, bio, involves biological organisms, like bacteria, plants, and animals. The next part of the word, geo, involves geological processes, like the weathering of rocks. The last part of the word indicates chemical processes, such as the formation of molecules. Thus a biogeochemical cycle or substance turnover or cycling of substances is a pathway by which a chemical substance moves through both biotic (biosphere) and abiotic (lithosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere) compartments of Earth. A cycle is a series of change which comes back to the starting point and which can be repeated.
So, the correct answer is 'Describe the movement of water and other materials throughout the abiotic and biotic environment'.
Which gas is utilised in combustion process ?
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  1. Carbon dioxide

  2. Nitrogen

  3. Oxygen

  4. Water vapour

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

During the combustion process, oxygen is utilized. As Oxygen is required for the combustion to occur.

Biogeochemical cycle involves .......... factors.

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  1. Biological

  2. Geological

  3. Chemical

  4. All of the above

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Biogeochemical cycle involves biological, geological and chemical factors. The circulation of chemical nutrients like carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, calcium, and water, etc. between biotic and abiotic components of the biosphere is known as a biogeochemical cycle.

So, the correct option is option D.

________ is required to maintain the balance in nature.

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  1. Biotic factors

  2. Abiotic factors

  3. Biogeochemical cycle

  4. None of the above

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The path through which a nutrient travels as it moves from the air, water or soil into the bodies of living organisms and back to the air, water or soil is called a biogeochemical cycle. It is one of the requirements to maintain the balance in nature.

Biogeochemical cycles are of

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  1. Two types

  2. Three types

  3. Four types

  4. Five types

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The term biogeochemical cycle is used for exchange or circulation of biogenetic nutrients between living and nonliving components of a biosphere. 

The Biogeochemical or nutrient cycle can be- 
(A) gaseous cycle in which the materials involved in circulation between living and nonliving components are gases or vapours. E.g., carbon, hydrogen, oxygen. 
(B) sedimentary cycles of matter in which the materials involved in circulation between biotic and abiotic components of a biosphere are non-gaseous. E.g., phosphorous, calcium, magnesium.
(C) Hydrological cycle is the cycle where the surface water which gets evaporated due to the heat is returned back to the earth by precipitation through sequential interconvertible reactions.
So, the correct answer is option B.

Oxygen forms about ............. of the air in the atmosphere.

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  1. 20%

  2. 30%

  3. 40%

  4. 45%

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Correct Option: A

If wild animals are killed, what difficulty would we face?

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  1. Imbalance in nature

  2. Decrease in fog rain

  3. Decrease in population

  4. Increase in rain

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Correct Option: A

Which one of the following pairs is a sedimentary type of biogeochemical cycle __________.

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  1. Phosphorus and carbon dioxide

  2. Oxygen and nitrogen

  3. phosphorus and nitrogen

  4. phosphorus and sulphur

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

In sedimentary cycles of matter, materials involved in circulation between biotic and abiotic components of biosphere are non gaseous and the reservoir pool is lithosphere e.g., phosphorus, calcium, magnesium.
Sulphur has both sedimentary and gaseous phases.

So, the correct answer is 'phosphorus and sulphur'

Which of the following cycle would be affected if decomposers of an ecosystem vanish ______________.

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  1. Producer's cycle

  2. Consumer's cycle

  3. Decomposer's cycle

  4. Biogeochemical cycle

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Recycling of material is carried out by decomposers. If decomposers of an ecosystem vanish recycling of materials is stopped, thereby affecting the movement materials between the biotic and the abiotic systems that forms the biogeochemical cycle.

So, the correct answer is 'Biogeochemical cycle'

Biogeochemical cycles are of _____________.

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  1. Two types

  2. Three types

  3. Four types

  4. Five types

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:
The biogeochemical cycles are classified into 2 types namely gaseous cycles like Nitrogen, Carbon dioxide and sedimentary cycles like Phosphorus and Sulphur. 
So, the correct answer is 'Two types'