Carbon
Cycle
Cycle
Plants use photosynthesis to make these two nutrients.
What is sugar and oxygen?
Phosphorus is not found in a free state of nature but is mostly contained in
What are rocks and minerals?
The percentage of nitrogen has in the atmosphere.
What is 78%?
Any water source that is underground…
What is groundwater?
The main regulator of CO2 in the atmosphere.
What is the ocean?
Phosphorus is an important nutrient for life as it makes up important chemicals such as…
What is DNA?
Special organisms that can directly use nitrogen in the atmosphere and make it so other organisms can benefit from it.
What are nitrogen-fixing bacteria?
The stage in the cycle in which water comes down from clouds in any way.
What is precipitation?
6CO2 + 6H20————————>C6H12O6 + 6O2
What is the formula for photosynthesis?
Too much phosphorus in water leads to this…
What is plant overgrowth?
The bacteria in soil that breaks down ammonia into the gaseous form of nitrogen.
What is denitrification bacteria?
How clouds are formed…
What is condensation?
Too much CO2 in the atmosphere may be responsible for this.
What is the Greenhouse effect?
The reason why use of too much phosphorus-rich fertilizes could be bad for the environment
what is the reason that they could run off into water causing excess growth?
Higher organisms use nitrogen to make these…
What are proteins?
How water turns into a gas and is sent into the atmosphere.
What is precipitation?
More CO2 is released into the atmosphere today because of
What is burning fossil fuels?
A big source of phosphorus in water that is man-made…
What is pollution?
The way that animals return nitrogen to the soil…
What is through their waste?
When plants take in water through their roots and release it into the atmosphere through their leaves…
What is transpiration?