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    The document discusses several biochemical cycles including the water, nitrogen, carbon, and oxygen cycles. These cycles describe the movement of elements and compounds through Earth's biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere. The water cycle involves evaporation, condensation, and precipitation of water between the oceans, atmosphere, and land. The nitrogen cycle converts nitrogen between atmospheric, soil, and organic forms. The carbon cycle recycles carbon between living organisms and the atmosphere, oceans, and geosphere. Photosynthesis produces oxygen which is consumed through respiration in the oxygen cycle.

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    The document discusses several biochemical cycles including the water, nitrogen, carbon, and oxygen cycles. These cycles describe the movement of elements and compounds through Earth's biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere. The water cycle involves evaporation, condensation, and precipitation of water between the oceans, atmosphere, and land. The nitrogen cycle converts nitrogen between atmospheric, soil, and organic forms. The carbon cycle recycles carbon between living organisms and the atmosphere, oceans, and geosphere. Photosynthesis produces oxygen which is consumed through respiration in the oxygen cycle.

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    The document discusses several biochemical cycles including the water, nitrogen, carbon, and oxygen cycles. These cycles describe the movement of elements and compounds through Earth's biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere. The water cycle involves evaporation, condensation, and precipitation of water between the oceans, atmosphere, and land. The nitrogen cycle converts nitrogen between atmospheric, soil, and organic forms. The carbon cycle recycles carbon between living organisms and the atmosphere, oceans, and geosphere. Photosynthesis produces oxygen which is consumed through respiration in the oxygen cycle.

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    THE BIOCHEMICAL CYCLE

    BIOCHEMICAL CYCLE
    It is a complete path an element or a compound take through the four subsystem of
    Earth.

    It implies the movement of life (bio-); Earth's surface (geo-); and substances
    (chemical)

    These processes are essential in the maintenance of life on Earth .

    Biochemical cycles include water, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and oxygen cycles

    HYDROLOGIC CYCLE
    It is the movement of water from the ocean to the atmosphere to the land and back
    to the ocean.

    It's also called the water cycle

    PROCESSES IN THE WATER CYCLE


    1. Evaporation

    THE BIOCHEMICAL CYCLE 1


    2. Condensation

    3. Precipitation

    NITROGEN CYCLE
    It is the conversion of molecular nitrogen to elemental nitrogen.

    PROCESSES IN THE NITROGEN CYCLE


    1. The prokaryotes convert the atmospheric nitrogen, N2. These prokaryotes are
    called nitrogen-fixing microorganisms. They convert molecular nitrogen into
    ammonia. This process wherein molecular nitrogen is converted into ammonia is
    called NITROGEN FIXATION

    2. Nitrogen is a process that converts ammonia and ammonium compounds into ntrite
    and then to nitrate.

    3. In the soil, urea is converted into ammonia or ammonium compounds in a process


    called AMMONIFICATION

    4. The nitrates would then be converted by denitrifying prokaryotes into atmospheric


    nitrogen. This process is called DENTRIFICATION.

    CARBON CYCLE
    It is the process where carbon compounds are recycled in nature.

    Carbon is present in many forms ranging rom compounds found in living organisms
    to the carbon found in fossil fuels.

    Carbon dioxide comes from respiration, combustion or burning or organic


    compounds, and diffusion from the ocean.

    PROCESS IN THE CARBON CYCLE


    1. Carbon dioxide is utilized by plants and other photosynthesis organisms. These
    organisms convert carbon dioxide into carbohydrate and other carbon compounds.

    THE BIOCHEMICAL CYCLE 2


    2. Animals feed on the plants passing the carbon compounds along the food chai.
    Most of the carbon the animals consume is exhaled as carbon dioxide.

    3. When the animals and plants die, decomposers feed on them. The carbon in their
    bones is returned to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.

    4. In some conditions, decomposition does not happen. Carbon from dad organisms
    which are buried in wetland, swamps, lakes, and deep sea sediments for very long
    period of time is converted into fossil fuels.

    OXYGEN CYCLE
    One unique characteristic of Earth is the presence of free molecular oxygen in it's
    atmosphere

    Oxygen is distributed among reservoirs including the atmosphere, ocean,


    freshwater environments, soils, and groundwater.

    PROCESS IN THE OXYGEN CYCLE


    1. The major mechanism that produces oxygen is photosynthesis which occur in
    plants, algae, and in two group of prokaryotes, cyanobacteria and prochlorophytes.

    2. Oxygen is then consumed by animals through aerobic respiration. In this process,


    the animal break down sugar molecules and release carbon dioxide.

    KEYPOINTS
    The biogeochemical cycle transfer elements and compounds between the four
    spheres. These transfers are essential in making the planet habitable.

    Water, carbon, and nitrogen cycle are important biogeochemical processes that
    describe how the substance is transported through each sphere

    THE BIOCHEMICAL CYCLE 3

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