phosphorus cycle

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Across
  1. 5. can cause health problems in ______
  2. 10. to much phosphorus in bodies of water can be ______
  3. 13. the process after the rock phosphates (2 words)
  4. 14. when an ______ the phosphates are released back into the earth (2 words)
  5. 16. stop using fertilizers to ______ to much phosphorus
  6. 18. phosphorus promoter______ in plants (2 words)
  7. 19. how phosphates enter the water
  8. 20. what plants take in from the soil (2 words)
Down
  1. 1. a biochemical cycle that involves the translocation and transformation of phosphorus in the soil, water, and organic material. (2 words)
  2. 2. animals ________ causing phosphorus to be incorporated into their DNA (2 words)
  3. 3. a way phosphorus can enter the soil
  4. 4. plays a critical role in animals ______ (2 words)
  5. 6. the first part of the phosphorus cycle (2 words)
  6. 7. plays a role in farming by helping ______ (2 words)
  7. 8. lost during the mining and processing (2 words)
  8. 9. the cycle is important to sustaining life by giving (2 words)
  9. 11. wasted in the food chain (2 words)
  10. 12. animal waste, decaying plants, and animals (2 words)
  11. 15. essential of plant ______ (2 words)
  12. 17. soil with phosphorus particles gets into the water by moving through the soil and __________ groundwater