What do you call a cycle that passes nutrients from biotic factors to abiotic factors?
What is "biogeochemical cycle"
the process of water seeping into the ground
What is percolation.
Who "fixes" the nitrogen into a form that we can use?
What is bacteria
What biogeochemical cycles have both a long term cycle and a short term cycle?
What is carbon cycle and phosphorous cycle.
Describe the steps of the short term phosphorus cycle
What are "absorbed into plants, consumed by animals, released back into environment through death, pooping, and urination, broken down by decomposers, returned to soil".
Name a way that carbon is released into the atmosphere using biological processes?
What is cellular respiration.
What are the levels of organization (in order from smallest to largest)
Organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere
Bacteria turning nitrogen into usable nitrogen
What is "Nitrogen Fixation"
A symbiotic relationship when both organisms benefit
What is mutualism
Nitrogen is used in the body to make what?
What are proteins.
Energy travels in a _________________ manner
What is Unidirectional
Phosphorus is returned to the rock cycle from plants and animals by what?
What is "hardening into solid phosphate after being sediment".
What are "fossil fuels"