Nutrient cycle
Across
- 2. A bacteria in soil that can break down the ammonia into the gaseous form of nitrogen
- 7. What is the special bacteria that can directly use nitrogen in our atmosphere and fix
- 8. More CO2 is released in the atmosphere today than in the past hour because of what
- 10. What is the process when Animals use oxygen to make more CO2
- 13. The animals use phosphorus, and their
- 15. Plants use CO2 in the process called what
- 18. Animals and plants cannot directly use all the nitrogen found in our what
- 19. Our atmosphere is 78%
- 20. Today these deposits are burned as fossil fuels which include?
Down
- 1. What do humans use to help grow plants
- 3. Too much CO2 in the atmosphere may be responsible for the what?
- 4. Some of the phosphorus in soils can be washed away into what
- 5. In another part of the cycle, animals eat?
- 6. Phosphorus is not found in the free state in nature, but is contained mostly in?
- 9. Animals waste decays by the action of bacteria which creates?
- 11. Another natural source for CO2 is
- 12. Higher organisms use nitrogen to make their what
- 14. Another source of the phosphorus in water comes from man-made what
- 16. The what is the main regulator of CO2 in the atmosphere
- 17. Too much phosphorus in water leads to what