Across
- 5. Cycle / a slower cycle than the water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles.
- 6. / what causes phosphate salts to break from rocks.
- 7. / When phosphorus moves through rocks, water, soil, sediments and organisms.
- 9. / When a large amount of phosphate from the earth is removed from the earth is to make_____.
- 10. activity / What is affecting the phosphorus cycle.
Down
- 1. / What is not included in the Phosphorus cycle but is included in the water, carbon, and nitrogen cycle.
- 2. / Important nutrient
- 3. Compounds / As water runs over exposed rocks, it slowly erodes what?
- 4. / What is the process when plants absorb phosphates from the soil and turn them into organic compounds.
- 8. / The way humans have influenced the phosphorus cycle.
