Environmental Cycles
Water Cycle
Carbon Cycle
The cycle that processes by which water circulates between the Earth's oceans, atmosphere, and land, involving precipitation as rain and snow, drainage in streams and rivers, and returns to the atmosphere by evaporation and transpiration.
Phosphorous cycle
Nitrogen Cycle
condensation
precipitation
changing a gas to a liquid
rain, snow, sleet , or hail that falls to the ground.
Evaporation
Changing a liquid into a gas
The series of processes that helps keep a steady level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Respiration
Combustion
photosynthesis
Decomposition
Process by which plants and some other organisms use light energy to convert water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and high energy carbonhydrates such as sugars and starches.
A process in living organisms involving the production of energy, typically wit the intake of oxygen and the release of carbon from the oxidation of complex organic substances.
the process of burning something.
the process by which organic substances are broken down into a much simpler form of matter
All that water is known as hydrosphere.
Water returns to the Earth thorough precipitation also known as rain, snow, sleet, and hail.
Water that flows across the surface of the earth is know as runoff.
Water can soak into the ground in a process called infiltration.
The movement of nitrogen between the atmosphere, biosphere, and geosphere in different forms
Nitrogen- a component of proteins and nucleic acids, is essential to life on Earth.
(Atmosphere) The envelope of gases surrounding the earth.
(Biosphere)
The global sum of all ecosystems. It can also be termed as the zone of life on earth, a closed ecosystems.
(Geosphere)
Any of the almost spherical concentric regions of matter that make up the Earth and its atmosphere, as the lithosphere and hydosphere
The Phosphorous cycle is the biochemical process by which phosphorous travels from its source in rocks through different ecosystems to living organisms.
Weathering- weathering of uplifted rocks contributes phosphate to the land. Some phosphates make their way back to the ocean.
Fertilizer- Phosphate fertilizer applied to fields that can runoff directly into streams, become part of a soil pool, or be absorbed by plants.
Excretion and decomposition- Excretion by animals and decomposition of both animals and plants release phosphates on land or in water.
Dissolved Phosphates- Dissolved phosphates precipitate out of the solution and contribute to the ocean sediments.
Geologic forces can slowly lift up phosphate rocks from the ocean floor.
There are 5 steps to the Phosphorous cycle, weathering, fertilizer, excretion and decomposition, dissolved, phosphates, and geologic uplift.