Introduction

Introduction to Nutrient Cycling

Nutrient cycling is how nature moves food and materials around to make sure nothing is wasted.

Nutrient cycle is the process through which organic and inorganic matter moves and is exchanged within an ecosystem.

It means that things like carbon and water travel from the ground and air into plants and animals, and then go back again.

This lesson looks at how important tiny pieces of matter, called molecules, move around the world we live in.

Just like energy, these nutrients are never lost from the cycle.

Even if you cannot see them, these nutrients are still there; they are just stored in different forms.

Nutrient cycling is the way very important things that life needs, like nitrogen, carbon, water, and oxygen, travel around.

Nutrient cycling refers to the movement of essential nutrients like nitrogen, carbon, water, and oxygen.

It is the way these important materials go into living things and then come out back into the soil or air.

These elements move from the environment into living organisms and then return to the environment.

The way these tiny bits of matter, called atoms or elements, travel in a circle is what we call a cycle.

The route that these atoms or elements take as they move is known as a cycle.

This means they follow a path that always brings them back to where they started so they can be used again.