Answer the following :

1. It is the process by which

nitrogen in the earth atmosphere is
converted into ammonia.

Answer : Nitrogen Fixation


2. It is biogeochemical cycle that
describes the movement of
phosphorus through the
lithosphere, hydrosphere and
biosphere.
Answer : Phosphorus Cycle

3. It is a major component of
amino acids, the building blocks of
proteins.

Answer: Nitrogen

4-8. Phosphorus moves in a cycle
through :?
.> water, rocks, soil, sediments
organisms

9. Is the release of absorbed
phosphorus from its bound state
into soil solution.
Answer : Desorption

10. It is inorganic phosphorus
compounds need to be soluble to
be taken u by plants.
Answer: Ph

11. Converted into plants
available phosphate into organic
forms that are then not available to
plants.
Answer: Bacteria

12. The absorption and digestion
of food or nutrients by body or
any biological system.

Answer: Assimilation

13. Aerobic , Anaerobic bacteria
and fungi are examples of what?

Answer: Decomposers

14. Inorganic phosphorus can be
chemically bound (adsorbed) to
soil particles, making it unavailable
to plants.
Answer: Adsorption

15. Is the process by which the
organically bound by nitogen of
microbial plant, and animal
biomass is recycled after their
death.
Answer: Ammonification

16-20. Five steps in nitrogen cycle.
Nitrogen Fixation
Nitrification
Denitrification
Ammonification
Assimilation