Nutrient cycle

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