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Chapter 37
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Essential element | 17 essential elements -chemicals elements required for a plant to complete its life cycle |
| Micronutrients | chlorine, iron, manganese, boron, zinc, copper, nickel, and molybdenum |
| Macronutrients | are carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur, potassium, calcium, and megnesium |
| Mineral nutrient deficiency symptoms and mobility of the nutrient | concentration of salts in soil as water evaporates |
| Soil Texture | sand, silt, clay |
| Loam | are the most fertile topsoils and contain equal amount of sand, silt, and clay |
| Negatively charged ions and soil particles | do not bind with soil particles and can be lost from the soil by leaching |
| Positively charged ions (cation) and soil particles | prevents them from leaching out of the soil through percolating groundwater |
| phytoremediation | is a biological, nondestructive technology that reclaims contaminated areas |
| Denitrifying bacteria | Convert NO3 to N2 |
| nitrogen-fixing bacteria | bacteria convert N2 into NH3 |
| nitrifying bacteria | Convert NO2 to NO3 |
| Endomycorrhizae | which the fungal hyphae enter the cells of the root cortex |
| Ectomycorrhizae | the mycelium of the fungus forms a dense sheath over the surface of the root |