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Chapter 18.4 vocab

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biogeochemical cycle   how substances such as water, carbon, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus pass between the living and nonliving worlds  
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groundwater   water in the soil or in underground formations of porous rock  
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water cycle   the movement of water between various reservoirs  
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transpiration   the process of most water that evaporates from terrestrial ecosystems passing through plants  
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carbon cycle   Photosynthesis and cellular respiration form the basis of this short term  
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nitrogen cycle   the complex pathway that nitrogen follows in an ecosystem  
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nitrogen fixation   the process of converting N2 gas to nitrate  
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nitrogen-fixing bacteria   most organisms rely on this ; it transforms nitrogen gas into a usable form  
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ammonification   the process of decomposers breaking down materials like dead bodies, poop, and pee and releasing the nitrogen that contain as ammonia, NH3, which in soil becomes NH4  
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nitrification   the process of soil bacteria taking up ammonium and oxidizing it into nitrites, NO2-, and nitrates, NO3-  
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denitrification   the way that nitrogen it returned to the atmosphere  
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phosphorus cycle   the movement of phosphorus from the environment to organisms and then back to the environment  
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