Nutrient Cycling Flashcards
1
Q
What’s nutrients cycling?
4
A
- Where nutrients stored
- how nutrients get into plants
- nutrients animals?
- nutrients back reservoirs
2
Q
C- cycle
A
Reservoirs: main= atmosphere CO2, other = dead organisms
Into plants: photosynthesis
Into animals : eat
Into reservoirs: cellular respiration
3
Q
N- cycle
A
Reservoirs: main = atmosphere N2
Other = dissolved in ocean N2, soil
Into plants : bac in root nodules, add H or O
Into animals: eat
Into reservoirs: in low oxygen bac release N2
4
Q
Limiting factor
A
- variables limit growth l, abundance, distribution organisms or pop in area
(Eg iron in ocean )