Nitrogen Cycle
Across
- 2. Decomposers convert organic waste into ammonia
- 6. Process of converting nitrogen gas from the air into ammonia, done by nitrogen fixing bacteria
- 7. is the atmospheres most abundant element making up 78% of volume in the troposphere
- 8. Number of components of the nitrogen cycle
- 10. Plants of the bean & pea family, contains nodules of nitrogen-fixing bacteria
- 12. NO3
- 13. Bacteria changes the nitrates in soil or water to nitrogen gas and release it back into the atmosphere
- 14. Product of nitrogen decomposition
- 15. Nitrogen_____
Down
- 1. An abiotic source of fixing atmospheric nitrogen into nitrate compounds for the soil.
- 3. Substances in food that organisms need to grow
- 4. Low nitrogen availability limits a plants _____
- 5. When plants and other producers absorb and use nitrogen
- 9. Convert nitrogen in the remains of dead organisms into nitrogen compounds plants can use
- 11. The process where ammonia is converted to nitrate ions by bacteria in the soil