EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Nitrification occurs when soil microbes convert ammonium into nitrate. Much of the overlap between the carbon cycle and the nitrogen cycle occurs in the soil, in processes conducted by soil microbes. Microbes break down nutrients, build new compounds for their own growth, and eventually die.

Detailed explanation-2: -This stage takes place in the soil. Nitrogen moves from organic materials, such as manure or plant materials to an inorganic form of nitrogen that plants can use. Eventually, the plant’s nutrients are used up and the plant dies and decomposes. This becomes important in the second stage of the nitrogen cycle.

Detailed explanation-3: -They include fungi along with invertebrate organisms sometimes called detritivores, which include earthworms, termites, and millipedes.

Detailed explanation-4: -The nitrogen cycle is a repeating cycle of processes during which nitrogen moves through both living and non-living things: the atmosphere, soil, water, plants, animals and bacteria.