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$100 Question from Nutrient Cycle

The way nutrients are cycled inthe biosphere; the continuous flows of nutrients in & out of stores.

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What is Nutrient cycle?

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The chemicals that are required for plant and animal growth and other life processes.

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What are nutrients?

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Biotic processes such as decomposition and abiotic processesSuch as river run-off can cause Nutrients to flow in and out ofstores

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What is the cycling of nutrients in the biosphere

$400 Question from Nutrient Cycles

The carbon cycle, nitrogen cycle, And phosphate cycle move nutrientsInto and out of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems

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What are nutrient cycles in ecosystems

$500 Question from Nutrient Cycles

Human activities such as agriculture, and land clearing can effect a nutrient cycle by increasing the amounts of nutrients in the cycle

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What are the effects of human activities on nutrient cycles

$100 Question from carbon cycle

The nutrient cycle in which carbon is moved through the biosphere; maintains the balance of CO2 in the atmosphere

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What is carbon cycle

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Essential component in the chemical reactions that sustain Life

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What is carbon

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All living things contain billions of these in their cells

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What are carbon atoms

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Short term stores of carbon are found in vegetation on land

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How is carbon stored

$500 Question from carbon cycle

A variety of natural processes Move carbon through the ecosystem

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How is carbon cycled through the atmosphere

$100 Question from phosphorus cycle

nutrient cycle in which phosphorus is moved through the biosphere

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What is phosphorus cycle

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In North America, phosphate rock is mined primarily to make commercial fertilizers and detergents such as those used indishwashers

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What are human activities and thePhosphorus cycle

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Starts its existence in the rocksOf the world

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What is phosphorus

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Phosphorus is trapped in phosphate

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How is phosphorus stored

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Weathering releases phosphate through the ecosystem

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How is phosphorus cycled through ecosystems

$100 Question from Nitrogen Cycle

Nutrient cycle in which nitrogen is moved through the biosphere

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What is nitrogen cycle?

$200 Question from Nitrogen Cycle

Certain species of bacteria, called nitrogen fixing bacteria, play a significantrole in nitrogen fixation.

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What is nitrogen fixingbacteria?

$300 Question from Nitrogen Cycle

Since not all plants live inassociation with nitrogen fixing bacteria, they must obtainnitrogen in another form.

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What is Nitrification?

$400 Question from Nitrogen Cycle

The process in which nitrogen gas is converted into compounds that contain nitrate or ammonium.

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What is Nitrogen fixation?

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Nitrification takes place in two stages and involvescertain soil bacteria known as nitrifying bacteria.

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What is nitrifying bacteria?

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The process in which nitrogen is returned to the atmosphere

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What is DE nitrification

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The process of mountain building in which Earth`s crust folds & deeply buried rock layers rise & are exposed

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What is Geological uplift

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Nutrients that are accumulated for short or long periods of time in Earth`s atmosphere, Oceans, & land masses.

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What are Stores

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The process by which carbon dioxideEnters the leaves of plants and reacts with water in the presence of sunlight to produce carbohydrates And oxygen

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What is photosynthesis

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The process in which soil particles & decaying organic matter accumulate in layers on the ground or at the bottom of large bodies of water, contributing to the formation of sedimentary rock

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What is Sedimentation

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Like a sealed terrarium in which all nutrients and all wastes that are produced are constantly recycled within its boundaries

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What is the Earth’s biosphere