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How do you describe the role of bacteria in returning nitrogen to the atmosphere?
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∙ 8y ago
There are two types of bacteria; nitrifying bacteria and denitrifying bacteria. The work of denitrifying bacteria such as Thiobacillus and Micrococcus is converting nitrates to nitrogen that is released to the atmosphere.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 9y agoSome bacteria can take nitrogen from the atmosphere and convert it into a form that plants and other microorganisms can use. Some examples of microorganisms that are converted into forms that are useful for other organisms are carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, and phosphorus.
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∙ 10y agoBacteria have three roles in moving nitrogen in the ecosystem:
- They are important in breaking down dead plant and animal materials. These are high in nitrogen.
- These produce ammonium which is used by another set of bacteria which nitrify. Some of this is used by plants and some is lost to the atmosphere.
- The nitrogen in the air can not be used directly by plants and nitrogen fixing bacteria found in nodes around the plant roots and in the soil begin the cycle again.
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Where does the free nitrogen produced by bacteria eventually go?
N2 (Nitrogen) went atmosphere eventually. (By bacteria)
Where does most of the nitrogen that the bacteria use come from?
The nitrogen is absorbed into the soil from the atmosphere.
Nitrogen is the most common element in the air. Why do bacteria play a role in the nitrogen cycle?
Several bacteria can fix the nitrogen fom atmosphere.
What is the role of nitrogen fixing bacteria?
they help balance the level of nitrogen in the soil and atmosphere.
Where does nitrogen in the soil come from?
Nitrogen compounds known as Nitrates found in the soil
What is the role of microorganisms in returning nitrogen or carbon dioxide to the atmosphere?
this microorganisms is called denitrifying bacteria, it helps to decompose the nutrients (nitrogen) back to the atmosphere. and the process of returning nitrogen or carbon dioxide to the atmosphere is called denitrification.
What releases nitrogen into the atmosphere?
Denitrification which is the process of nitrofen returning to the atmosphere which also involes denitrifying bacteria( convert nitrate back into nitrogen gas)
How is nitrogen returned to the atmosphere in the nitrogen?
Denitrification by bacteria
Describe the nitrogen cycle and explain why it is important for the survival?
The nitrogen cycle is how nitrogen moves between plants, animals, bacteria, the atmosphere, and the soil. In each phase, it is in a different form.
What kind of organisms can remove nitrogen from the atmosphere?
Bacteria can remove nitrogen from the atmosphere.
What does bacteria do with nitrogen from the atmosphere?
eats it
What is the proccess by which bacteria take nitrogen out of the atmosphere?
This is known as nitrogen fixation.
Where does the free nitrogen produced by bacteria eventually go?
N2 (Nitrogen) went atmosphere eventually. (By bacteria)
Do nitrogen fixing Bactria reduce the amount of nitrogen in the atmosphere?
Nitrogen-fixing bacteria do reduce the amount of nitrogen in the atmosphere by converting N2 into ammonia.
What would happen if the bacteria that cause denitrification were removed from the nitrogen cycle?
denitrification is soil bacteria converting nitrates into nitrogen gas, is process releases nitrogen into the atmosphere. If there wasn't any bacteria, there would be no process and therefor the nitrogen wouldn't make it into the atmosphere.
Where does most of the nitrogen that the bacteria use come from?
The nitrogen is absorbed into the soil from the atmosphere.
Why Nitrogen is the most common element in the air .why do bacteria play a role in the nitrogen cycle?
Several bacteria can fix the nitrogen fom atmosphere.
