Water
What is the simple water cycle?
Evaporation Condensation and Precipitation
What role does photosynthesis play in the carbon cycle?
It stores carbon.
Nitrates are reduced into gas back into the atmosphere.
Dentrification
What role does the essential nutrient phosphorus play?
It is a primary building block of nucleic acids, ATP, and membrane phospholipids.
All chemical cycles cycle between what?
Cycle between abiotic and biotic reservoirs.
Water moving through soil is?
Percolation
Decomposition
Releases carbon back into the atmosphere from dead organisms.
Through roots, nitrogen is taken through the biological system for growth and development.
Absorption
How is phosphorus absorbed through its cycle?
Producers through mycorrhizal fungi
Herbivores and Carnivores absorb phosphorus through consumption.
How do chemicals move between ecosystems?
Through consumption and waste, animals move chemicals between ecosystems.
Leaves taking in rainwater.
Interception
Compression
Heat, pressure, and time compacts carbon into sedimentary rocks.
organic carbon becomes oil, coal, or natural.
the process of n^2 into biologically available nitrogen.
Nitrogen Fixation
What returns phosphorus to the soil?
Decomposers
What are excessive nutrients that can ultimately lead to oxygen-poor water that can not sustain much life?
Eutrophication.
Ground soaked by rain.
Infiltration
Dissolution
The process where carbon dioxide from the atmosphere dissolves in water, forming into carbonated acid and later into bicarbonate acid.
The movement of nitrogen through the root zone.
Leaching
What is the main inorganic storage for phosphorous?
Phosphate-rich rocks are the main source for erosion.
What absorbs nutrients from abiotic reservoirs and builds organic molecules?
Autotrophs
What are the three steps of the hydrologic cycle?
Transpiration
Runoff
Storage
Sediemntation
through decomposition, remains become sediment, trapping stored carbon that turns into rocks or fossils in layers.
The aerobic cross and converter ammonia to nitrite to nitrate and is an important step in the nitrogen cycle.
Nitrification
What is the process of dissolution in the cycle?
What are the qualities of the three elements in the cycles?
N: proteins, nucleic acid
P: nucleic acids, phospholipids, ATP