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    Nutrient cycling refers to the circulation of nutrients like carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and water between living and non-living parts of ecosystems. This helps maintain equilibrium and supports all life. The carbon cycle involves carbon moving between the atmosphere, organisms, oceans, and rocks through photosynthesis, respiration, and decay. The oxygen cycle similarly moves oxygen between the atmosphere, biosphere, and lithosphere through photosynthesis, respiration, combustion, and decomposition. Human activities like deforestation and fossil fuel use can disrupt the carbon-oxygen balance by decreasing oxygen and increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, potentially causing greenhouse effects and warming. The nitrogen cycle converts nitrogen between atmospheric, soil, and organic forms through fixation, ammonification, nit

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    Nutrient cycling refers to the circulation of nutrients like carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and water between living and non-living parts of ecosystems. This helps maintain equilibrium and supports all life. The carbon cycle involves carbon moving between the atmosphere, organisms, oceans, and rocks through photosynthesis, respiration, and decay. The oxygen cycle similarly moves oxygen between the atmosphere, biosphere, and lithosphere through photosynthesis, respiration, combustion, and decomposition. Human activities like deforestation and fossil fuel use can disrupt the carbon-oxygen balance by decreasing oxygen and increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, potentially causing greenhouse effects and warming. The nitrogen cycle converts nitrogen between atmospheric, soil, and organic forms through fixation, ammonification, nit

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    Nutrient cycling refers to the circulation of nutrients like carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and water between living and non-living parts of ecosystems. This helps maintain equilibrium and supports all life. The carbon cycle involves carbon moving between the atmosphere, organisms, oceans, and rocks through photosynthesis, respiration, and decay. The oxygen cycle similarly moves oxygen between the atmosphere, biosphere, and lithosphere through photosynthesis, respiration, combustion, and decomposition. Human activities like deforestation and fossil fuel use can disrupt the carbon-oxygen balance by decreasing oxygen and increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, potentially causing greenhouse effects and warming. The nitrogen cycle converts nitrogen between atmospheric, soil, and organic forms through fixation, ammonification, nit

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    Nutrient cycling refers to the circulation of nutrients like carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and water between living and non-living parts of ecosystems. This helps maintain equilibrium and supports all life. The carbon cycle involves carbon moving between the atmosphere, organisms, oceans, and rocks through photosynthesis, respiration, and decay. The oxygen cycle similarly moves oxygen between the atmosphere, biosphere, and lithosphere through photosynthesis, respiration, combustion, and decomposition. Human activities like deforestation and fossil fuel use can disrupt the carbon-oxygen balance by decreasing oxygen and increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, potentially causing greenhouse effects and warming. The nitrogen cycle converts nitrogen between atmospheric, soil, and organic forms through fixation, ammonification, nit

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    NUTRIENTS CYCLING

    W.A.L.T:
    - Carbon cycle
    - Oxygen cycle

    IN NATURE -
    -
    Nitrogen cycle
    Water cycle
    INTRODUCTION
    Nutrient cycling refers to the circulation of certain nutrients
    like carbon, oxygen, water, sulphur, phosphorous, nitrogen
    among others in nature.

    Nutrient cycles restore ecosystems to the equilibrium


    state hence play an important role in keeping the
    ecosystem functioning. All organisms, living and non-living
    depend on one another. Nutrient cycles link living organisms
    with non-living organisms through the flow of nutrients.
    CARBON CYCLE
    The carbon cycle is nature's way of reusing carbon atoms,
    which travel from the atmosphere into organisms in the
    Earth and then back into the atmosphere over and over
    again. Most carbon is stored in rocks and sediments, while
    the rest is stored in the ocean, atmosphere, and living
    organisms.
    Summarily, carbon cycle involves the series of processes
    which contribute to the circulation of carbon in nature.

    IMPORTANCE OF CARBON IN NATURE


    - Aid the process of photosynthesis in green plants
    - Source of carbon which is the major building block of all
    organic matter
    - Helps purify the atmosphere and maintain atmospheric
    level of carbon dioxide
    - Organic matter which is made from carbon helps to
    replenish soil nutrient
    OXYGEN CYCLE
    Oxygen cycle refers to the movement of oxygen
    through the atmosphere (air), biosphere (plants and
    animals) and the lithosphere (the Earth's crust).
    Respiration, decomposition and combustion are the
    processes which remove oxygen from the
    atmosphere while the process of photosynthesis
    releases oxygen into the atmosphere.

    IMPORTANCE OF OXYGEN CYCLE


    - Ensures continuous availability of oxygen by the
    green plants through the process of
    photosynthesis
    - This in turn ensures continuation of life
    - Ensures the purification of the air to avoid
    pollution during decomposition
    - Aids availability of carbon dioxide to plants for
    photosynthesis
    CARBON-OXYGEN BALANCE
    Oxygen constitutes 21% of the gases in the atmosphere.
    Human activities such as deforestation leads to decrease in the amount of
    oxygen released by green plants while less carbon dioxide is removed from
    the atmosphere like wise increase in combustion of fuel, respiration and
    decay lead to the removal of more oxygen from the atmosphere and release
    of more carbon dioxide.
    A decrease in the level of oxygen between 2-8% might not cause any
    significant effect but a slight increase in the atmospheric carbon dioxide may
    cause a serious effect- GREEN HOUSE EFFECT – increase in retention
    of the sun’s radiant energy which can result into the warming of the
    earth’s atmosphere.
    NITROGEN
    CYCLE
    Nitrogen Cycle is a biogeochemical process through which
    nitrogen is converted into many forms, consecutively
    passing from the atmosphere to the soil to organism and
    back into the atmosphere. It involves several processes such
    as nitrogen fixation, nitrification, denitrification and putrefaction.
    -Nitrogen fixation; conversion of free atmospheric nitrogen into
    nitrates in the soil. This can be via the activities of bacteria or
    thunderstorm. E.g rhizobium bacteria(symbiotic), azotobacter
    and clostridium ( non- symbiotic).
    -Ammonification and Nitrification; involves the formation of
    ammonium compounds from dead and decomposing remains
    of organisms and wastes like urine and faeces while
    nitrification is the conversion of the ammonium compounds
    into nitrites (nitrosomonas) then nitrates by oxidation process
    (nitrobacter)
    -Denitrification; involve the conversion of nitrate to atmospheric
    nitrogen by bacteria.
    -Putrefaction; involves the break down of remains of organisms
    or waste products into ammonium compounds or nitrates.
    WATER CYCLE
    The water cycle shows the continuous movement of
    water within the Earth and atmosphere. It is a complex
    system that includes many different processes. Liquid
    water evaporates into water vapor, condenses to form
    clouds, and precipitates back to earth in the form of rain
    and snow.
    IMPORTANCE OF WATER TO LIVING ORGANISMS
    - It provides medium for absorption of dissolved minerals
    by plants
    - It an essential material for photosynthesis
    - Medium of transport in plants and animals
    - Aids excretion of metabolic and undigested food wastes
    - It’s the main component of plants and animals
    protoplasm
    - It regulates body temperature
    - Provides natural habitat for aquatic organisms
    - It is required for seed germination
    END OF UNIT ASSESSMENT
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