ECOLOGY
CHEMICAL CYCLES
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Question
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Phosphorus is being added to the environment by all of the following activities EXCEPT
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runoff from animal feed lots
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stream runoff
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leaching from the soil
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burning coal and fossil fuels
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mining operations to produce fertilizer
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -a) Fossil fuels enable efficient manufacturing of phosphorus in factories.
Detailed explanation-2: -Much of the phosphorus on Earth is tied up in rock and sedimentary deposits, from which it is released by weathering, leaching, and mining. Some of it passes through freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems via plants, grazers, predators, and parasites, to be returned to those ecosystems by death and decay.
Detailed explanation-3: -Phosphorus (P) is an essential element for all life forms and is stored primarily in soil and sediment.
Detailed explanation-4: -T or F-The burning of fossil fuels and photosynthesis are part of the PHOSPHORUS cycle? FALSE-They are a part of CARBON cycle.
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