Across
- 3. ammonium/ammonia converted to usable nitrogen by plants
- 4. nitrogen converted to ammonia or ammonium by bacteria
- 8. Fixation Nitrification Ammonification Assimilation Denitrification
- 10. nitrogen from living organisms (either their bodies or their excretions) is broken down (typically by bacteria or fungi) and converted to ammonium (ammonification)
Down
- 1. N, atomic number 7
- 2. chemical processes by which atmospheric nitrogen is assimilated into organic compounds, especially by certain microorganisms as part of the nitrogen cycle (but also by lightning strikes).
- 5. is a repeating cycle of processes during which nitrogen moves through both living and nonliving things: the atmosphere, soil, water, plants, animals and bacteria In order to move through the different parts of the cycle, nitrogen must change forms.
- 6. a series of events that are regularly repeated in the same order.
- 7. Nitrogen from food is incorporated into living organisms
- 9. reverse of nitrogen fixation; nitrates converted to nitrogen gas, which is diffused back into the atmosphere
