Which of the following is not a component of the phosphorous cycle
A - Phosphate is absorbed from the soil by plants
B - Phosphate is incorporated into sedimentary rocks
C - Atmospheric phosphate
D - Release of phosphate from rocks
E - Phosphate bound to soil
Answer: C - Atmospheric phosphate
Weathering of rocks releases phosphate into soil and then absorbed by plants making it available to consumers and detritivores who recycle it. Phosphate can be removed by harvesting the crop or becoming part of sedimentary rocks when it leaches through the soil into water, later to be put back in the soil due to the water cycle.
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Biochemical Cycles
- What is the largest pool of carbon on the planet?
- Which of the following is the best explanation for why we study the carbon cycle on a global scale and not as much in specific local ecosystems?
- Which of the following is not a way in which carbon can exit living plant material in the carbon cycle?
- Which of the following processes takes carbon out of the short-term carbon cycle?
- What is the primary source of carbon that can be used by plants?
- Identify the conversion which represents nitrification.
- Identify the statement that is NOT true about acid rain.
- How is it possible to include that eutrophication of bodies of water has occurred?
- When burned, which fossil fuel will release the greatest amount of pollution into the air?
- Which of the following is NOT a source of nitrogen that is available to plants?
- Within the biogeochemical cycle, where do consumers get most of their elements from, not including oxygen and hydrogen?
- Put the following elements in order of abundance by weight in living organisms, starting with the most abundant, and ending with the least abundant: iron, copper, phosphorus, oxygen, and hydrogen.
- What is biogeochemical cycling?
- What is a modern human intervention in the phosphorous cycle?
- Cloud formation is an example of condensation because.
- Transpiration is the process that occurs when.
- What are the three main parts of the water cycle?
- Steam is an example of which part of the water cycle?
- How much "new" water is made through the processes of the water cycle?