3.4 Biogeochemical Cycle

A principle that states that matter can be transformed but cannot be created or destroyed

• Law of conservation of energy

• Law of conservation of momentum

• Law of conservation of mass

• Law of conservation of matter

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Matter that organisms need to live

• energy

• nutrient

• mass

• organic

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A complex cycle in which nutrients continuously circulate through the environment

• Biogeochemical

• Biological

• Geological

• Chemical

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• primary consumer

• decomposer

• primary producer

• secondary consumer

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The process by which producers use carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight to make their own food

• cellular respiration

• photosynthesis

• nitrification

• decomposition

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• decomposer

• primary producer

• consumer

• nutrient

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• scavenger

• primary producer

• consumer

• decomposer

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The process by which organisms use oxygen to release the energy in food and carbon dioxide and water

• photosynthesis

• cellular respiration

• chemosynthesis

• metabolism

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An overgrowth of algae and other producers

• cellular respiration

• photosynthesis

• eutrophication

• combustion

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The conservation of nitrogen gas into ammonia, which makes nitrogen gas useable for organism

• weathering

• photosynthesis

• combustion

• nitrogen fixation