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Nutrient Cycling

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AP environmental science or college-level ecology classes will glean a tremendous amount of information on nutrient cycles from this detailed PowerPoint. It covers nutrient requirements, biogeochemcial cycles, decomposition rates, and plant adaptations when nutrient conditions are low. There are diagrams and flow charts to help explain the concepts. The 53 slides of information will require a few class sessions to dispatch.

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the nutrient cycle, nutrients, biogeochemical cycles, the nitrogen cycle

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biogeochemical cycle, nitrogen cycle, nutrient cycle, plant adaptation, soil nutrients, translocation, decomposition rate, science
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Grade
11th - Higher Ed
Subjects
Science
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Resource Type
Presentations
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For Teacher Use
Number of Slides
53

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