water
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what is the Number of steps in the water cycle.
_____ is the man inorganic storage reservoir for carbon
What is CO2?
what is nitrogen a component of?
proteins and nucleic acid
where are most phosphorus stored?
within rocks and soil
T/F. All chemical cycles are similar.
What is true?
water from precipitation taken in by the surface
what is infiltration
Carbon is released during ________?
What is cellular respiration?
where is the most nitrogen stored?
who returns phosphorus to soil?
decomposers
what's soil?
it's a complex mixture of rock particles, organic matter, air, and water
precipitation that does not soak into the soil but instead moves on to other bodies of water
what is run off
________ is an important nutrient because it is part of all organic molecules.
What is Carbon?
what's the process called where microbes convert NH4+ to NO3
nitrogen fixation
what are the components of phosphorus?
nucleic acid, ATP, and membrane phospholipids
________ flows in one direction, but all life depends on the elements that were present when Earth formed.
What is energy?
rainwater taken in by leaves instead of the ground
what is interception
What stores carbon?
What is photosynthesis?
what's nitrification?
where bacteria converts NH4+ to NO3
what absorbs phosphorus from soil?
producers
What illustrates how essential elements are continuously recycled?
What is biogeochemical cycles?
water moving through the soil
what is percolation
T/F The Carbon Cycle is not dissolved in the ocean.
What is False?
what two organisms cycles nitrogen through them?
producers and consumers
how do herbivores and carnivores get phosphorus?
by eating it
where can plants obtain some of their nutrients?
soil and air