BIOGEOCHEMICAL

CYCLES
 INTRODUCTION
The ways in which an
element—or compound
Energy flows through an
such as water—moves
ecosystem and is between its various living
dissipated as heat, but and non-living forms and
chemical elements are locations in the biosphere
recycled. is called a biogeochemical
cycle.
Biogeochemical cycles
important to living
organisms include the
water, carbon, nitrogen,
phosphorus, and sulphur
cycles.
 A biogeochemical cycle is the
continual recycling of nutrients
through the air, water, rock, soil, and
living organisms.

WHAT IS A
BIOGEOCHEMIC All these nutrients are essential to life.
AL CYCLE?

No new molecules are created – what

we have is what was here at the
beginning.
 TYPES OF
BIOGEOCHEM PHOSPHORU
CARBON
S CYCLE
ICAL CYCLES CYCLE

SULPHUR NITROGEN
CYCLE CYCLE

ENERGY FLOWS, BUT
MATTER IS
RECYCLED .
• Energy flows directionally through
Earth’s ecosystems, typically
entering in the form of sunlight and
exiting in the form of heat.
However, the chemical components
that make up living organisms are
different: they get recycled.
• Instead, they've been cycling through
the biosphere for a long, long time,
and they've been part of many
organisms and non-living compounds
along the way. You may or may not
believe in reincarnation as a spiritual
concept, but there's no question
that atoms in your body have been
part of a huge number of living and
non-living things over the course of
WHICH
BIOGEOCHEMICAL
CYCLES ARE KEY TO
LIFE?
• Water, which contains hydrogen
and oxygen, is essential for living
organisms. That places the water
cycle high on the list of cycles we
care about!
• The hydrosphere—the set of places
where water can be found as it
cycles on Earth—is large and
diverse. Water is present as a
liquid on the Earth's surface and
underneath the ground, as ice in
the polar ice caps and glaciers, and
as water vapor in the atmosphere.
For more information about how
water cycles among these forms,
check out the water cycle page.
THE WATER-
CYCLE
 Earth's water is always in movement,
and the natural water cycle, also
known as the hydrologic cycle,
describes the continuous movement
of water on, above, and below the
surface of the Earth. Water is always

WATER changing states between liquid, vapor,

and ice, with these processes
happening in the blink of an eye and
CYCLE over millions of years.
Groundwater is water that sinks into
the soil and is stored in aquifers.

An aquifer is a groundwater storage

area
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