Elemental cycles

moves water around

Heat from the sun causes water to evaporate from bodies of water and soil

Photosynthesis releases water from leaves

Water vapor cools and forms clouds and rains

Water moving between soil particles to groundwater

Water can travel to bodies of water

It can move many nutrients through the water

the movement of carbon through the biosphere

Producers take in carbon and spit out oxygen

Animals take in oxygen and spit out carbon

Carbon is exchanged from the atmosphere to the water

Carbon will combine with calcium ions from the ocean and form CaCO3 that turns into rock

Organisms that havent fully decomposed will be trapped inside rock and be fossilized

Volcanoes or burning of fossil fuels releases CO2

Humans dig for fossil fuels

the movement of nitrogen throughout the biosphere

Nitrogen gas is converted into ammonia, which is usable nitrogen

Lightening

Bacteria that live in legume roots or cyanobacteria can convert nitrogen gas into ammonia

Conversion of ammonium to nitrate

Producers incorporate nitrogen and nitrogen compounds into their tissue

Converting organic nitrogenous material (dead stuff) into inorganic nitrogenous material (ammonium). Producers take up ammonium or ammonium goes through nitrification

The conversion of nitrate to nitrogen gas through anaerobic bacteria

The movement of phosphorous throughout the biosphere