Water
How many steps are in the water cycle?
10 steps
What is the main inorganic storage reservoir for carbon?
CO2
What is nitrogen an important component of?
Proteins and Nucleic Acid
Where is most phosphorus stored?
within rocks and soil
What makes all cycles similars?
Abiotic and Biotic reservoirs
What is it called when water moves through the soil?
True
False
True/False: Decomposers do not return phosphorus to the soil?
False
What moves chemicals between ecosystems?
Animals
What step of the water cycle is water from precipitation taken in by the surface?
Infiltration
What is released during cellular respiration?
Carbon
How do herbivores and predators obtain nitrogen?
By eating producers
Producers absorb phosphorus from soil through the help of ____
Mycorrhizal Fungi
What is denitrification?
Bacteria converts ammonium ion and nitrate back to nitrogen and releases to the atmosphere
What step is the water taken in by leaves instead of the ground?
Interception
What stores carbon?
Photosynthesis
How do producers absorb ammonium and nitrate?
Through the soil
What is phosphorus a component of?
Nucleic Acids, ATP, and membrane phospholipids
What cycle illustrates how essential elements are recycled?
BioGeo Chemical Cycles
Name the steps of the water cycle?
1. Producers/Consumers 2. Evaporation 3. Condensation 4.Precipitation 5. Interception 6. Infiltration 7. Percolation 8. Transpiration 9. Runoff 10. Storage
Where can C02 be dissolved?
The Ocean
How is nitrogen returned to the atmosphere?
Microbes
What stores phosphorus?
Phosphate - Rich rocks
What is the process in which excessive nutrients lead to oxygen poor water?
Eutrophication