Ecosystem Cycles:

Biogeochemical Cycles
 TASK
• On a ½ sheet of paper answer the questions
based off the videos that you will be passing.
• Submit to academic chair at the end of the
period (to be submitted to Ms Lingbanan).
 Define the Following
• 1. Evaporation
• 2. Transpiration
• 3. Sublimation
• 4. Condensation
• 5. Precipitation
• What would happen if water is not
cycled?
Water (Hydrologic) Cycle
 HYDROLOGIC (Water) CYCLE
Condensation
Rain clouds

Transpiration
Evaporation
Precipitation to Transpiration
land from plants Precipitation
Precipitation Evaporation
Surface runoff from land Evaporation
Runoff from ocean Precipitation to
(rapid)
ocean

Infiltration and Surface

Percolation runoff
(rapid)
Groundwater movement (slow)

Ocean storage

Figure 4-28
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Carbon and Nitrogen Cycle
 Carbon Cycle
• 1. Where can be carbons found?
• 2. How does carbon get to the
atmosphere?
• 3. How does carbon become part of the
earth?
• 4. When is carbon useful?
• 5. When is carbon dangerous?
 CO2 in Atmosphere
Burning of
Fossil Fuels
Cellular Respiration
Photosynthesis

Coal and Petroleum Decomposition of

dead organisms
 Nitrogen Cycle
• 1. Where is nitrogen found?
• 2. Trace the nitrogen cycle using the following
words:
• Plants, animals Nitrogen, ammonia, nitrites,
nitrogen fixing bacteria, denitrifying bacteria,
nitrates, ammonium,
• 3. Give one example of nitrogen pollution.
 Nitrogen Gas in Atmosphere

Denitrification

Nitrates
(NO3-)
Nitrogen Fixation
Decomposers return
ammonia to soil

Nitrites
(NO2-)