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Steps 1-3: _______ uptake phosphorus, _______ eat the plants, ________ eat carcasses of animals.

1) plants, 2) animals, and 3) decomposers.

100
The biggest sink in the phosphorus cycle.
What is the ocean.
100
The symbol for phosphorus on the periodic table.
What is P.
100
Humans can get phosphorus through the process of ________.
What is mining.
100
True or false: Phosphorus is needed for cellular respiration.
True.
200

Feces into soil produces ______.

Phosphorous

200
Organisms need phosphorus for_____.
What is ATP and/or nucleic acids.
200

The way animals obtain phosphorus.

 through the food they eat.

200
Farmers use phosphorus in their ______.
What is fertilizer.
200
Some phosphorus is deposited on the ________ and is left for millions of years.
What is the sea floor.
300

Soil erodes into _____.

oceans.

300

Water low in oxygen is...

Hypoxia

300
Phosphorus is a part of this group on the periodic table.
What is the nonmetal group.
300
What is one use of phosphorus that could cause destruction?
What is building a bomb.
300
Name two main places where phosphorus is found.
What is soil, rocks, and/or oceans.
400

Uplift of _____.

phosphorous (into plants/mountains)

400

The cycle time for phosphorus is ______.

 very long.

400

The name of the bond that holds DNA and RNA molecules together.

phosphate bonds.

400
Humans obtain phosphorus through _______.
What is their diet.
400

Runoff of phosphorous causes ____.

Algal Bloom

500

Rocks _____.

Erode (Weather)

500

True or false: Phosphorus is present in every place on the planet.

False. While oceans and organisms have phosphorous, it's not distributed evenly through the planet.

500

Dead organisms release this kind of phosphorus.

What is inorganic phosphorus.

500
The result of using too much phosphorus as fertilizer.
What is phosphorus running into streams and oceans in excess, destabilizing the ecosystem and losing the phosphorus.
500

What type of nutrient is phosphorous in an ecosystem

a limiting nutrient

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