Nutrient Cycle Reading

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16 questions
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List the three common nutrients

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Where do plants obtain nutrients from?

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When a consumer eats a producer, the nutrients in the producer pass to the

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What returns the nutrients to the cycle?

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Liquid water changes into vapor (gas) and enters the air through

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Water returns to the earth by rain, hail, sleet, or snow by

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During photosynthesis, producers change carbon dioxide into

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What gas is produced by photosynthesis?

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Autotrophs and heterotrophs release carbon dioxide into the air through what process?

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Organisms need what nutrient to produce proteins?

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What process of capturing and changing nitrogen into a form that plants use?

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How does nitrogen enter the food web?

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How does nitrogen return to the soil?

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The process where bacteria in the soil change nitrogen compounds into nitrogen gas is called

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Phosphorus is used to make

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In the long-term cycle, phosphorus is added to soil from weathering or erosion of rocks that contain phosphorus.