What to bring for students to look at

• Water - ?
• Carbon – Balloon I blow up, coal, Car oil, dry ice
• Nitrogen _ Fertilizer, Wart remover, ammonia
• Phosphorus- Fertilizer, limestone
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What is a Biogeochemical Cycle?
(Bio-Geo-Chemical) • Water Cycle
• Moves water around the Earth to give life
water
• Carbon Cycle
• Biogeochemical Cycles
• Moves carbon around the earth to help
- When elements pass from build larger molecules like lipids, proteins
one organism to another through and nucleic acids
• Reason why we are called Carbon based life
parts of the Biosphere in closed loops forms.
• Nitrogen Cycle
• Moves Nitrogen around the Earth to help
grow plants, make DNA and it makes up
78% of our atmosphere
• Phosphorus Cycle
• Moves Phosphorus around the Earth to also
help make DNA and helps plants grow
• Comes from rocks!
Let’s start here… WATER CYCLE
• Starts with Precipitation
• Run off (rivers streams, creeks)
• Freezes into glaciers and icebergs
The Water Cycle is : Any form of precipitation
on the earth (rain, sleet, snow or hail etc), • Stored in freshwater lakes, and Saltwater
Ground water, rivers, ponds, oceans, lakes, oceans
geysers, springs, ALL WATER. • Percolates (sinks) into the ground and saturates
the ground, collects as ground water.
• Springs and geysers
• Absorbed in plants and animals
• Evaporated from plant surfaces
(Evapotranspiration)
Even water that makes up living things. • Evaporated from river, ocean, creek, puddles
etc.
• Condensation
 Key terms
Precipitation
• Any form of water falling from the sky.
Water Storage
• Body of water. Lakes, Ponds, Oceans, Glaciers, Snow
drifts.
Sublimation • conversion between the solid and the gaseous phases of
matter, with no intermediate liquid stage.
Runoff
• Water that isn’t absorbed by the ground and travels across
the land.
Evaporation
Transpiration • Water transforms into a gas state
Evapotranspiration • Water taken up by plants from the soil, then evaporated
off their leaves
Condensation
• The sum of Evaporation and transpiration
Infiltration
• Water vapor in the air that changes to liquid water.
• Water that moves from the surface to the ground
Saturation
• The amount of water the soil can hold (like a sponge)
Ground Water
• the water beneath the surface of the ground in the
zone of saturation where every pore space between
rock and soil particles is saturated with water.
 Your turn.

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What do these have in common?
 • The carbon cycle describes the process in which
carbon atoms continually travel from the atmosphere
to the Earth and then back into the atmosphere
• CO2 is a green house gass

• This process can happen by:

1. Biological processes
Carbon 1. (by plants and animals)
2. Human intervention
Cycle 1. (Burning of fossil fuels that release CO2)
3. Geological processes
1. (Volcanic eruptions)
4. And chemical processes
1. (CO2 dissolves in rainwater and returns to
the ocean)
Coral Bleaching because of CO2 in
atmosphere
Makes water more acidic
What do these have in common?
Nitrogen Cycle: What is it? Nitrogen is found in 4 tyeps: Nitrogen gass (N2),
Ammonia (NAH3), Nitrates (NO3-) and
The process Nitrogen takes when traveling form the Nitrites (NO2-)
atmosphere, to the land, and water, then back again.

Why Nitrogen?
• 78% of the Earths atmosphere, but plants CAN NOT
use this form of Nitrogen. Starts here.
• So now what?
• Certain BACTERIA and FUNGUS convert NITROGEN
GASS into something they can use, like
Ammonia. This process is called NITROGEN
FIXATION.
• Some bacteria live on the roots of plants like pea nuts
and peas, while others use this process to turn
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 • Similar to the Nitrogen Cycle
• Starts in the Earth! Rocks and sediment is weathered away
(warn down) and phosphate is released. Mining also
releases phosphates.

Phosphoru • Phosphorus is taken up by primary producers (plants) and is

reused by consumers (things that eat plants).

s Cycle
• When they die or release waste products it is released back
to the soil.
• Some phosphates get dissolved by water and used by aqua
plants.
• Over time, marine sediments turns back to rock (limestone)
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Question for you.

What have humans done to upset the balance

of these Biogeochemical cycles?
How has weather influenced writings in
human history
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Algal Blooms – YouTube
Agricultural Runoff 2019 – YouTube :D