Terms
What is Reservoir?
Use of synthetic (man made) nitrogen fertilizers.
What is Cause?
Under certain condition plants combine nitrogen and hydrogen to form ammonia.
What is Industrial Fixation?
Process where N2 molecules in the air breaks apart and combine with other atoms to form ammonium NH2.
What is Nitrogen Fixation?
A series of actions that produce something or lead to a particular result.
What is Process?
Fixes more nitrogen than all natural sources combines.
What is Effect?
Nitrogen must be converted to more chemically available forms for plants and animals to use.
What is Nitrogen Compounds?
Makes up about 78% of the atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen?
NH4> Organic N2
What is Assimilation?
The physical environment.
what is human Impact?
N2 in the atmosphere into NH3.
What is bacteria?
Pollutants such as ammonia and ozone.
What is excess nitrogen?
Part of the decay process.
What is Ammonification?
Some human impacts.
What is overpopulation, pollution, burning fossil fuels?
Breaks apart nitrogen molecules.
What is lighting?
The most important thing in the nitrogen cycle.
What is bacteria?
When energy from lighting breaks N2 molecules.
What is Atmospheric Fixation?
Highly specialized bacteria live in soil and combine N2 with H2.
What is Biological Fixation?
Describes now nitrogen H2 moves between various reseriuos
What is Nitrogen Cycle?
Two thing in the Nitrogen cycle.
What is Decomposer and Denitrification.