Key Terms — Carbon And Nitrogen Cycles Flashcards

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Assimilation

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Take up molecules from others and make it become part of you

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Fossilisation

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When animals and plants don’t decay fully and becomes fossil fuel under high pressure and optimum conditions

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Saprotrophs

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Decomposes, bacteria, fungus

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Combustion

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Burning fossil fuel

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Leguminous plants

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Have root nodules with nitrogen fixing bacteria

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Denitrification

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Nitrates in soil turns to nitrogen gas

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Nitrogen fixing

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Nitrogen gas turns into nitrates in plants and soil

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Nitrification

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Ammonium turns into nitrites then nitrates

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