Water
Carbon
Nitrogen
Phosphorous
Mixed
100

What is the simple water cycle?

Evaporation Condensation and Precipitation

100

What role does photosynthesis play in the carbon cycle?

It stores carbon. 

100

Nitrates are reduced into gas back into the atmosphere.

Dentrification

100

What role does the essential nutrient phosphorus play?

It is a primary building block of nucleic acids, ATP, and membrane phospholipids. 

100

All chemical cycles cycle between what?

Cycle between abiotic and biotic reservoirs.

200

Water moving through soil is? 

Percolation

200

Decomposition

Releases carbon back into the atmosphere from dead organisms.

200

Through roots, nitrogen is taken through the biological system for growth and development.

Absorption

200

How is phosphorus absorbed through its cycle?

Producers through mycorrhizal fungi

Herbivores and Carnivores absorb phosphorus through consumption. 

200

How do chemicals move between ecosystems?

Through consumption and waste, animals move chemicals between ecosystems.

300

Leaves taking in rainwater.

Interception

300

Compression

Heat, pressure, and time compacts carbon into sedimentary rocks. 

organic carbon becomes oil, coal, or natural. 

300

the process of n^2 into biologically available nitrogen.

Nitrogen Fixation

300

What returns phosphorus to the soil?

Decomposers

300

What are excessive nutrients that can ultimately lead to oxygen-poor water that can not sustain much life?

Eutrophication.

400

Ground soaked by rain.

Infiltration 

400

Dissolution

The process where carbon dioxide from the atmosphere dissolves in water, forming into carbonated acid and later into bicarbonate acid.

400

The movement of nitrogen through the root zone.

Leaching

400

What is the main inorganic storage for phosphorous?

Phosphate-rich rocks are the main source for erosion.

400

What absorbs nutrients from abiotic reservoirs and builds organic molecules?

Autotrophs

500

What are the three steps of the hydrologic cycle?

Transpiration

Runoff

Storage

500

Sediemntation

through decomposition, remains become sediment, trapping stored carbon that turns into rocks or fossils in layers.

500

The aerobic cross and converter ammonia to nitrite to nitrate and is an important step in the nitrogen cycle. 

Nitrification 

500

What is the process of dissolution in the cycle?

through runoff and erosion, phosphates in soil dissolve in fresh water and are reabsorbed into the soil at a higher concentration.
500

What are the qualities of the three elements in the cycles?

C: all organic molecules

N: proteins, nucleic acid

P: nucleic acids, phospholipids, ATP

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