APES: Key Ideas for Chapter 5 (Biogeochemical Cycles)

1. macro vs micronutrients: know difference and a some examples

2. What are the Big 6 macronutrients?

3. Understand how any of these can be limiting factors. Know how that would
impact growth or survival.

4. Elements with a gaseous phase vs. those with no gaseous phase: Compare
the speed of cycling *

5. What 4 groups of cycles make up the larger geologic cycle?

6. Remember how to calculate ART ( there will be a few problems)

7. Nitrogen cycle: Know all the steps of the nitrogen cycle, what anthropogenic
activities may bring them out of balance *

8. Carbon Cycle: Remember the formulas for photosynthesis and cellular

respiration, since they are very important to cycling of carbon *

What anthropogenic activities may bring the carbon cycle out of balance *

10. Water cycle, major energy source that drives it is the sun (evaporation) and
understand the power of water erosion to release other nutrients locked in
soil….*

11. Rock cycle, major energy source is tectonic movement

12. carbon-sylicate cycle, relationship to CO2 and Calcium carbonate (marine

organisms shells), they die and sink, burial, high pressure subduction ,
volcanic re-release of CO2 from melted ocean sediments (see pg 93)

12. Eutrophication: what it is, examples, process *