GEOG 1220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nitrogen Cycle, Carbon Cycle, Nitrification
28 Oct 2015
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: physical, chemical, and biological characteristics that restrain. All limiting factors taken together: nutrients: organisms. Elements and compounds required for survival that are consumed by: sedimentary cycles: are released for use by life as a result of weathering processes. Nutrients spend most of their time locked up in a rock but: such as calcium (spends most of its time in limestone) and fertilizers, gaseous cycle: are exchanged between the biosphere and the atmosphere. Nutrients spend much of their time in the atmosphere. Nutrients: such as nitrogen and oxygen, nitrogen cycle, input: nitrification, output: denitrification, carbon cycle, input: photosynthesis, output: respiration & decomposition, the carbon cycle has been part of and altered by human history though: Controlling carbon micro-life forms: the flow of energy in the biosphere. A sequence of organisms in an ecosystem, each eating or: food chain: decomposing its prey matter circulate through an ecosystem, food web: A set of interconnected food chains by which energy and.
