Skip to content

Nature & science · Age 11 · Quarter 3 – Advanced Ecology

The Nitrogen Cycle and Nutrient Cycling

Understand how nitrogen and other nutrients cycle through ecosystems.

Module

Quarter 3 – Advanced Ecology

Age

Age 11

Duration

10 min

Questions

5

What's in this exercise

Answers are hidden — sign up to practise and check your work.

  1. Question 1

    Multiple choice

    Nitrogen is important for living organisms mainly because it is needed to make:

  2. Question 2

    Multiple choice

    How do most plants absorb nitrogen?

  3. Question 3

    Multiple choice

    Which organisms are responsible for fixing atmospheric nitrogen into a form plants can use?

  4. Question 4

    True or false

    When plants and animals die, decomposers break them down and release nutrients back into the soil.

  5. Question 5

    Matching

    Match each part of the nitrogen cycle to what happens.

Sign up to let your kid practise these exercises

Get started — it's free

More exercises in this module

Back to Quarter 3 – Advanced Ecology for 11-year-olds