WATER
the process where water turns into a gas
What is evaporation?
the process that moves carbon between plants, animals, and microbes, minerals in earth and atmosphere
an essential nutrient because it is a component of proteins and nucleic acids
What is nitrogen?
element on the periodic table represented by the letter P
What is phosphorus?
the process in which excessive nutrients lead to oxygen-poor water that does not sustain life
What is eutrophication?
the process by which plants release water into the atmosphere
What is transpiration?
the gas released during cellular respiration
carbon
the main inorganic storage reservoir for nitrogen
What is N2?
an essential nutrient that is a component of nucleic acids, ATP, and membrane phospholipids
What is phosphorus?
the trophic level that obtains nutrients from abiotic reservoirs
What are autotrophs?
rainwater taken in by leaves instead of ground
What is interception?
the main inorganic storage reservoir for carbon
Carbon Dioxide
the most abundant naturally occurring gas in Earth's atmosphere
What is Nitrogen?
they return phosphorus to the soil
What are decomposers?
the water, carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycles
What are the biogeochemical cycles?
the process of water moving through the soil
Carbon
the process microbes convert N2 to NH4+, a nitrogen source some producers store
What is nitrogen fixation?
the main inorganic storage reservoirs of phosphorus
What are phosphate-rich rocks?
how many directions does energy flow
What is one direction?
What is infiltration?
gas dissolved in the ocean during the carbon cycle
CO2
process bacteria convert NH4 and NO3 back to N2 and release it into the atmosphere
What is denitrification?
the type of fungi that helps producers absorb phosphorus from soil
What is mycorrhizal fungi?
what breaks down organic molecules and releases nutrients to abiotic reservoirs
What are decomposers?