Nitrogen Cycle
The cycle that produces nitrogen from dead or decayed plants and animals.
What is the Nitrogen Cycle?
Plants use CO2 in this process to make sugar.
What is Photosynthesi?
Where phosp is mostly contained not in the free state of nature.
What are rocks and minerals?
How water is returned to the ocean.
What is Precipitation?
Bacteria breaking down the ammonia in the soil into the gaseous form of nitrogen.
What is denitrification?
Animals use oxygen in this process to create CO2.
What is Respiration?
An essential nutrient for life as it makes up important chemicals such as DNA.
What is phosphorus?
How nutrients are carried from the ocean to land.
What is water carrying nutrients?
What are plants?
Huge deposits of carbon are found in this.
What is decayed or dead animals and plants?
Too much phosphorus in water leads to this in plants.
What is overgrowth?
How water from the land is transferred into the atmosphere.
What is groundwater?
Animal waste contains this element that is useful for plants.
What is Nitrate and ammonia?
Today these deposits are burned as fossil fuels.
What is Coal Oil and Natural Gas?
This is a man-made source of phosphoru.
What is pollution?
How water is carried into rivers, lakes , and oceans on land
What is runoff?
Animals can’t use the nitrogen in this.
What is the atmospehere?
Another source for CO2 is.
What is a volcano?
Where phospHorus moves through in the ground leading to plants which animals eat and transfer the phosphorus into their waste.
What is soil?
How water informs into clouds.
What is condensation?