Water Cycle
How many steps are in the Water Cycle?
10 Steps
what is CO2
Carbon dioxide
what is considered a essential nutrient?
NItrogen
what is Phosporus?
essential nutrient
because it is a component of nucleic acids, ATP, and membrane phospholipids
All Chemicsl cycles are what?
Similar
1 producers and consumers
2 Evaporation
why is Carbon the a important nutreint?
what makes nitrogen an essential nutrient?
it is a component of protiens and nucleic acids
where is most phosphorus stored?
rocks and soil
what moves between ecosystems?
Chemicals
what are the 2 parts of the frist step of the water cycle?
1 In take( drinking)
2 give back
what stores carbon?
Photosynthesis
where is most nitrogen stored?
the atmosphere
what absorbs phosphorus from the soil?
Producers
what is eutriphication?
excessive nutrients ultimately lead to oxygen poor water that cannot sustain life
Define percolation
water moving through the soil
what is carbon released in?
cellular respiration
what is n2
the main inorganic storage reservior for nitrogen
what returns phosphorus into the soil?
Decomposers
what are the 4 chemical cycles?
Water, carbon , nitrogen, and Phosphorus
does the water cycle ever start or end?
NO
where is Co2 disolved at?
the ocean
what are 2 processes in the nitrogen cycle?
nitrogen fixation
nitrification
where does phosphorus dissolve?
in fresh water
what are the 10 Steps of the Water cycle?
1Producers and consumers
2 evaporation
3 condensation
4 precipitaition
5 interception
6 infiltration
7 percolation
8 transpiration
9 runoff
10 storage