Phosphorous

3. What is the overgrowth of algae in water bodies caused by excess nutrients?
6. An essential element needed for living things.
8. The process by which plants incorporate inorganic phosphate into organic compounds.
9. Plants absorb phosphorus through these parts.
10. What process moves phosphorus from the land to waterways?
15. Where is phosphorus stored long term?
16. What is the chemical form of phosphorus that plants absorb from the soil?
18. What is the process of breaking down rocks and minerals to release phosphorous?
20. In aquatic environments phosphates not immediately used can sink to the bottom and form these

1. Phosphorus is an essential component of these structures in animals.
2. Phosphorus is a key component of this energy carrying molecule.
4. Dead zones in water bodies have low _______
5. The movement of phosphorus from the environment to organisms and back again.
7. Plants get Phosphorous from the ______
11. Humans affect the cycle by using these in agriculture, which often contain phosphorus.
12. What are the organisms that break down dead organic matter, returning phosphorus to the soil?
13. Process that releases phosphorus from rocks.
14. Phosphorus does not move through this part of the environment, unlike carbon and nitrogen.
17. Phosphorous can build up in water and cause ______
19. What is a common way animals take in phosphorous?