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Nutrient Cycle | What Is a Nutrient Cycle?

Future Zoologist Academy is a virtual zoology and ecology program for kids who love animals. Explore the complete Nutrient Cycle lesson using the link below. https://futurezoologistacademy.com/le... -------- If we picture a forest, we might envision mighty trees with enormous trunks or maybe delicate flowers of all shapes and sizes. Like all plants, these plants need water and sunlight to grow, but they also need nutrients. We know where water and sunlight comes from, but how do these plants get nutrients? Let's find out! Nutrients allow both plants and animals to have the energy they need to grow big and strong. Nutrients are things like carbon, phosphorus, and nitrogen. Plants and animals can take nutrients from the environment and change them into other nutrients that they can use. Most plants get their nutrients from the soil and water (sometimes from the air) and most animals get nutrients from their food. Plants take nutrients from the soil and energy from the sun and use it to make sugars which they use to grow and survive. Throughout its life, the plant may drop leaves or flowers and eventually will die. As the dead plant material lays in the ground, decomposers (and detritivores) break down the dead material and add the nutrients back into the soil in a form that plants can absorb through their roots. Let’s pause for a moment and discuss decomposers. Decomposers break down dead matter and add nutrients back to the soil while detritivores are a type of decomposer that adds nutrients into the environment by eating the dead material and depositing the nutrients in its waste. Detritivores are animals like earthworms and millipedes, while non-detritivore decomposers are things like bacteria and fungi. Nutrients also move from plants to animals. Animals (consumers) get nutrients from the plants when they eat them. Nutrients can then be passed as animals eat each other. Animals deposit nutrients into the environment through their waste and when they die, then decomposers go to work. Nutrients are always moving around in the environment between both living and nonliving factors, that’s why we call it a nutrient cycle! #nutrientcycle #whatisthenutrientcycle #nitrogencycle #phosphoruscycle #carboncycle #nutrients #nutrientcycleinecosystem #nutrientcycledefinition #scienceforkids #1stgradescience #2ndgradescience #3rdgradescience #4thgradescience #5thgradescience #6thgradescience #freesciencelesson