Phosphorus

Phosphorus

1. Its cycle begins in soil.T hanks to the rocks that contain phosphate. When phosphorus takes the roots of plants, plants fill with phosphate.

2. When the animals feed on plants, the animals make their solid waste, the phosphorus returns to the earth, it must be taken into account that when the animals die the phosphorus is also released, when the humans exploit the rocks the phosphate is also released.

3. In the aquatic cycle wl fosfat returns to the earth and becomes rock.

4. What did not turn into rock is transported by the seedling to the algae there are the aquatic animals consume plants and when the birds consume the fish the birds defecate and in that poop there is phosphorus.

5. There are two ways to return the phosphorus to the earth. One of them was the one mentioned and the other is when the water, by raising the ocean, goes directly to the mainland, this can last thousands of years.

6. In the phosphorus cycle there is the long and the short cycle

   • Eutrophication is when phosphate is lost in algae.
   • The long (land) short cycle (Aquatic)