example of Geochemical cycle - water,nitrogen,carbon, the reason must matter cycle - there are not infinite amounts of nutrients available on the earth, they must be recycled in order to ensure the continued existence of living organisms., What is greenhouse effect - the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere, the most important thing in nitrogen cycle - Bacteria/decomposer, what does the nitrogen cycle do - nitrogen is converted into many forms, consecutively passing from the atmosphere to the soil to organism and back into the atmosphere., what does the water cycle do - shows the continuous movement of water within the Earth and atmosphere, what does the carbon cycle do - 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, evaporation - liquid to gas, condensation - gas to a liquid, precipitation - any form of water that falls from the sky, nitrification - process by which certain bacteria convert ammonium to nitrates, nitrogen fixation - process by which certain bacteria convert nitrogen gas to ammonia, denitrification - conversion of nitrates in the soil by bacteria into nitrogen gas, Aquifer - an underground layer of water-bearing materials, Eutrophication - a natural process that results from accumulation of nutrients in lakes or other bodies of water,

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