Biotic factors are all of the living organisms within an ecosystem. These may be plants, animals, fungi, and any other living things. Abiotic factors are all of the non-living things in an ecosystem. Abiotic factors come in all shapes and sizes. They can be as small as a rock or as large as the sun. No matter what its size, each abiotic factor plays an important role in an ecosystem.
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Cyclic movement of nitrogen in different chemical forms from the environment to organisms and then back to the environment. nitrogen fixation. Conversion of atmospheric nitrogen gas into forms useful to plants by lightning, bacteria, and cyanobacteria; part of the nitrogen cycle.
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All of the chemical elements in an organism are part of the biogeochemical cycle. The chemicals travel not only through the biotic and abiotic components of an ecosystem, but they also travel through an organism. The abiotic factors of an ecosystem include: (1) water (hydrosphere), (2) land (lithosphere), and (3) air (atmosphere).
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Interpret biogeochemical cycles including hydrologic, nitrogen, phosphorus, oxygen, and carbon cycles. Recognize that energy is not recycled in ecosystems. e. Distinguish between abiotic and biotic factors in an ecosystem and describe how matter and energy move between these.
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nutrient cycle See biogeochemical cycle. percolation Passage of a liquid through the spaces of a porous material such as soil. phosphorus cycle Cyclic movement of phosphorus in different chemical forms from the environment to organisms and then back to the environment.
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Biogeochemical Cycles [edit]. global changes in earth's atmosphere. A biogeochemical cycle or inorganic-organic cycle is a circulating or repeatable pathway by which either a chemical element or a molecule moves through both biotic (bio-) and abiotic (geo-) compartments of an ecosystem.
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Nutrients move through the ecosystem in biogeochemical cycles. A biogeochemical cycle is a circuit/pathway by which a chemical element moves through the biotic and the abiotic factors of an ecosystem. It is inclusive of the biotic factors, or living organisms, rocks, air, water, and chemicals.
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Abiotic factors are all of the non-living things in an ecosystem. Both biotic and abiotic factors are related to each other in an ecosystem, and if one factor is changed or removed, it can affect the entire ecosystem.
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Capable of being broken down by decomposers. biogeochemical cycle. Natural processes that recycle nutrients in various chemical forms from the nonliving environment to living organisms and then back to the nonliving environment. Examples are the carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur, and hydrologic cycles.
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nitrogen cycle Cyclic movement of nitrogen in different chemical forms from the environment to organisms and then back to the environment. nitrogen fixation Conversion of atmospheric nitrogen gas into forms useful to plants by lightning, bacteria, and cyanobacteria; part of the nitrogen cycle.
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what effect do abiotic cycles have on ecosystems?
The effect of Abiotic factors are all of the non-living things in an ecosystem.