Phosphorus Cycle Crossword

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