Phosphorus Cycle
Phosphorus is so limiting to any ecosystem since it is so ____
What is scarce?
The nitrogen transforms non-biologically useful forms of nitrogen into ___
What is useful forms of nitrogen?
All living things contain _____
What is carbon?
The four basic stages of the water cycle
What is evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection?
Phosphorus combined with other elements because of it's
What is high reactivity?
The chemical process that atmospheric compounds are converted into organic compounds
What is fixation?
The process that synthesizes carbon dioxide and water
What is photosynthesis?
The process of water becoming a vapor
What is condensation?
Phosphorus is a part of the transfer of genetic information called ___
What is DNA?
The process that turns nitrates in to nitrogen gas ;the opposite of nitrogen fixation
What is denitrification?
Cold water rises to the surface of the ocean
What is upwelling?
The process in which water vapor forms clouds
What is condensation?
Much of Earth's phosphorus is located in
What are rock and sedimentary deposits?
The process that converts ammonia into useful forms of nitrogen
What is nitrification?
The interference of the carbon cycle through emitting carbon too quickly
What is human interaction?
The process in which water is brought up through plants and is evaporated
What is transpiration
Phosphorus is intimately involved in the transfer of ___
What is energy?
The process in which nitrogen is broken down from living organisms in to ammonium
What is decomposition?
The largest "Carbon Sink" on Earth
What is the ocean?
The leading factor of water pollution
What is human interaction?