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How is matter able to recycle through the biosphere?
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Matter is controlled by the atoms and thetemperature, such as ice melting to water and water to steam. The carbon atom can be recycled through the biosphere by falling in the rain made by the steam from the fire. Then along comes a bird and drinks the water with the carbon atom and it becomes part of the bird. A man kills bird and uses it for food and the feathers to start a fire. And now you have your recycling of matter.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 14y agoUnlike the one-way flow of energy , matter is recycled within and between ecosystems. Elements,chemical compounds, and other forms of matter are passed from one organism to another and from one part of the biosphere to another through biochemical cycles.
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∙ 13y agoBy transforming it.
More specifically all matter is broken down in one form or another. For example:
rock melts down to lava in the earth then rises and cools again on the surface.
Organic matter rots and decays.
iron rusts,
oxygen is converted to carbon dioxide by creatures, then converted back to oxygen by plants.
So on and so forth, almost ever thing on the surface of this planet is recycled through the biosphere in some way.
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∙ 14y agobiological systems do not use up matter, they transform it.
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∙ 9y agoMatter can be recycle through the biosphere because the biological systems in place do not use up this matter. Instead, these biological systems transform the matter.
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∙ 8y agobiological systems do not use up matter, they transform it
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∙ 15y agothe friction
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What happens to the energy and matter in ecosystems?
Matter is recycled, but energy is not.In an ecosystem, matter is represented by the presence of biogeochemical elements such as Hydrogen, Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Phosphorus and Sulfur. These elements are being recycled through their respective cycles - Biogeochemical cycles (please click this http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=Biogeochemical+cycles&gwp=13).Energy, on the other hand, is not recyclable. It is something that an organism utilizes or consumes. The 1st law of thermodynamics explains why energy is not being recycled - as an energy passes through or is being consumed by an organism, the consumer of the said organism will only utilize less of a 100% of what the organism was able to get from the 100% energy.
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