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