The Nutrient Cycle Flashcards
1
Q
What is the nutrient cycle?
A
The cycle in which mineral ions are taken up from the soil by plants, which are eaten by consumers, and are returned to the soil when plants die
2
Q
How are nutrients taken up by plants?
A
Active Transport
3
Q
What are nutrients from the soil used to create?
A
Complex organic molecules.
4
Q
How are nutrients passed through organisms?
A
Consumers eat producers that have taken up nutrients from the soil
Secondary consumers eat primary consumers, so the primary consumers nutrients pass onto the secondary consumer.
5
Q
How are nutrients returned to the soil?
A
Organisms die, so complex organic molecules are broken down by saprobionts in the soil, to simple molecules
