SCIENCE

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 The Oxygen Cycle
The movement of The process in
Oxygen is the oxygen from living wich plants absob
It can be found
abundant things to the carbón and return
in other
element in the atmosphere and oxygen to the
compound such
earth`s crust and water then back is atmosphere is
as water.
the ocean. known as the known as the
Oxygen cycle. Photosyntesis.
 6CO2 + 6H2O Photsyntesis C6H12O6 + 6O2

Carbon Oxide + water sugar + oxygen

C6H12O6 + 6O2 Respiration 6CO2 + 6H2O

Sugar + Oxygen Carbon Oxide + Water

 The Phosphorous cycle
The
One part is Here it forms Soil constitutes
Phosphorous phosphorus
found in a organic the second
is an cycle is
mineral complexes most important
element that sedimentary
state in with molecules storage site
is never and therefore,
rocks and like lipids, and thirdly,
found in a the
minerals or proteins and deposits of
free state. atmosphere is
in the soil. carbohydrates. phosphates.
not involved.
 Phosphorous circulates through the biosphere
in the following way
In nature , phosphorus is When animals die or
Plants absorb
available by the leave excrement,
phosphare ions and
decomposition of rocks phosphorus compounds
integrate them into
can contain phosphates are returned to the soil
their structure in
and natural erosion that and water, thanks to a by
different compounds.
reaches the soil and water. decomposers.

Phosphorous compounds
can be transported by When marine When happens in
river sediments and organism die, they shallow waters, it can
accumulated in alluvial deposit phosphorous give the phosphorus
soil along along river beds in deep, large, back to its own marine
and at the bottom of unrecoverable clusters. ecosystem
lakes.
 The Nitrogen Cycle

Process through which The phases of the nitrogen

Nitrogen (N) is a
nitrogen circulates through cycle are: nitrogen fixation,
chemical element that
the organic and inorganic assimilation, leaching,
makes up 78% of the
worlds is called the denitrification and
Earth`s atmosphere.
nitrogen cycle. ammonification.
 Phases
Ammonification: Denitrification: Leaching:
Nitrogen returns to the A part of the nitrogen
Nitrogen return to the soil
atmosphere thanks to compounds is washed
to be reused by plants,
denitrifiers, which change away by the rain to later be
throught excrement with
nitrogen compounds into deposited in rivers and
nitrogn compounds.
nitrogen gas. lakes.

Nitrogen Fixation: Assimilation:

Plant roots absorb nitrogen
Nitrogen Fixation: the main
compound from the soil, and
component in the
can be used by all living things
atmosphere is nitrogen (N2),
in order to make proteins,
in the form of gas.
nucleic acids and chlorophyll.
Human actions that alter the nitrogen and
phosphorous cycles
To guarantee a profitable production and to return depleted
elements to the soil, farmers apply nutrients to their crops.

The indiscriminate use of industrial fertilizers alters the

planet`s chemistry, wich increases the flow of nitrogen and
phosphorous by more double.

If this water is consumed by people or used to water crops, it

causes serious health problems.