Short Term
Plants obtain phosphorus from the soil.
What is Step 1 in the Short Term Cycle
The phosphorus enters into the soil and water through the weathering of rocks. Plants then take in these phosphorus ions from the soil.
What is Step 1 in the Long Term Cycle?
Organisms that phosphates are found in
What is all organisms?
High levels of phosphorus in soil.
What are phosphorus free-fertilizers and foliar zinc and iron spray?
The chemical element of atomic number 15, a poisonous, combustible nonmetal
What is phosphorus?
Animals get phosphorus by eating plants
What is Step 2 in the STC?
The phosphates are transefferd from the plants to animals. Those animals are then eaten by other things and the phosphates are then absorbed and returned to the soil through excretion or decay.
What is Step 2 in LTC?
The way plants use phosphates
What is fertilzer?
Low levels of phosphorus in the human body
What is bone problems?
Foods that are excellent sources of phosphorus
What is meat, dairy products, eggs, nuts and seeds, beans, whole grains, potatoes, garlic, dried fruit, carbonated drinks?
When these animals die, they decompose and the phosphorus is returned to the soil to be used again.
What is Step 3 in the STC?
The dead plant materials and other waste products release the phosphate out into the environment.
What is Step 3 in LCT?
There would be a decrease in crop yield and a negative effect towards an animal’s physical well being.
What is insufficient amounts of phosphorus?
Digestive problems can occur when there are extremely high levels of phosphorus.
What is phosphorus binders, diet, exercise program, and vitamin D?
Where is the most amount of phosphorus found in the body and about how much? (Percentage)
What are teeth and bones, and around 85%?
The Short Term Phosphorus Cycle is connected with the Long Term Phosphorus Cycle. (True/False)
What is True?
The phosphates in the soil is leached into the the water and then the water is utilized by algae and plants as nutrients.
What is Step 4 in LTC?
Importance of phosphorus in the human body
What is filtering waste and repairing tissue, and cells?
Extra amounts phosphorus gas in the atmosphere (what can happen)
What is acid rain?
True/False: Elk can develop health problems from intaking to much phosphorus from the things they eat
What is true?
Wastes from living things are recycled by decomposers, which break down wastes and dead tissues and release the phosphates.
What is the Short Term Cycle?
Phosphorus is found in bedrock in the form of phosphate ions combined with a variety of elements. These phosphates are soluble in water and can be dissolved out of the rock. When dissolved, the phosphates can be absorded by other animals and passed through the food chain.
What is the Long Term Cycle?
It isn’t needed for our cells to work or survive (True/False)
What is False?
How much phosphorus is needed in adults?
What is 700 mg?
How can humans negatively affect the phosphorus cycle?
What is cutting downrainforests, and putting too much fertilizer on lawns and fields?