Background/Phosphorus
Type of water in an estuary, as well as a close example.
What is Brackish and Galveston Bay?
Ways that phosphorus naturally enters soil.
What is weathering and waste removal?
2. Photosynthesis can be performed.
3. Photosynthesis can not be performed.
1. Sun (energy) + H2O + CO2 -> Sugar + O2
2. In the light
3. In the dark
Trend of the pH level in the ocean.
What is decreasing?
Current average ocean pH level.
What is 8.1?
Excessive version of eutrophication.
What is hypertrophication?
1. Algae in Summer.
2. Algae in Spring/end of Summer.
1. What is dies off?
2. What is rapidly reproduce?
1. Respiration chemical process.
2. Respiration can be performed.
1. Sugar + O2 -> H2O + CO2 + Energy
2. In the light and dark
Sinking and drifting while becoming colder/denser.
What are ways that carbon moves from surface ocean to deep ocean?
Acid that is involved with ocean acidification.
What is carbonic acid?
Phosphorus starting location.
What is Rocks?
Artificial phosphorus and what it can lead to.
What is phosphate fertilizer and hypertrophication?
What is the ocean getting carbon from the atmosphere via diffusion.
Ocean acidification effects on marine life.
What is decalcification of calcium carbonate that dissolves the structure of shells and corals?
Holds/absorbs more carbon than it releases.
What is a carbon sink?
1. With Carbon, natural/biological
2. W/O Carbon, non-biological
1. What is Organic?
2. What is Inorganic?
1. Absorbs the phosphate in surface ocean - the base of the marine food web.
2. Moves phosphorus through marine food chain.
1. What is phytoplankton?
2. What is Zooplankton?
What is bringing them to the surface and burning them?
Trend of CO2 in the atmosphere, and what can we do to reduce emissions.
What is increasing and conserving energy?
Silver and then dark red/brown.
What are the adult pacific salmon color(s)?
Land phosphorus cycle.
What is:
1. Rocks (I) -> weathering to soil
2. Soil -> absorbed by plants (I to O)
3. Animals eat plants
4. Animal waste/decompose back to soil (O to I)
5. Waterways to ocean
6. Uplift/Rock formation
No gaseous phase, and not a guarantee that the phosphorus returns to rock.
What are reasons that some people don't consider the phosphorus cycle a "true" cycle?
Dissolved salt in the ocean from CO2.
What is bicarbonate?
Place where pacific salmon train their gills for the ocean.
What is an estuary?
Water type where Pacific Salmon lay/fertilize eggs.
What is Freshwater?