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Vocab 18.4
Chapter 18.4 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Biochemical cycle | water, carbon, nitrogen, calcium and phosphourus, each pass through the living and non living worlds through this |
| groundwater | water in the soil or underground formations of pourus rock |
| Water cycle | the movement of water between these various resovoirs |
| transpiration | most of the water that evaporates from terrestial ecosystems passes through plants in this process |
| carbon cycle | photosynthesis and cellular resparation |
| nitrogen cycle | the complex pathway that nitrogen follows in an ecosystem |
| nitrogen fixation | the process of converting N2 gas to nitrate |
| nitrogen-fixing bacteria | to turn nitrogen gas into a useable form |
| ammonification | nitrogen is made availible to other organisms |
| nitrification | soil bacteria take up ammonium and oxide it into nitrates |
| denitrification | nitrogen is returned to the atmosphere |
| phosphourus cycle | the movement of phosphourus from the environment to organisms then back to the environment |