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Hypotheses - : Learning About The Natural World
Hypotheses - : Learning About The Natural World
Phosphorus cycle
Weathering of rocks gradually adds
phosphate to soil.
Some phosphate leaches into
groundwater and surface water
and moves to the sea.
Phosphate may be taken up by 2) DIRECT FALLOUT FROM THE
producers and incorporated into
organic material.
It is returned to soil or water
through decomposition of biomass
or excretion by consumers.