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Dead plants, dead animals, animal waste, nitric acid rain (made by lightning and the spark when starting a car), and nitrogen fixing bacteria (e.g. rhizobuim).

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Q: What are the possible sources of nitrates in soil?
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Why do farmers put nitrates in soil?

idsloving it in soil


How are soil nitrates replaced?

Soil nitrates are replaced in various ways. One of the most common ways to replace soil nitrate is by suing synthetic fertilizers.


When leaves fall off of a tree it cannot photosynthesize where does the tree get its energy?

Nitrates and potassium contained in the soil from rotting vegetation and other sources of fertiliser.


3 Describe two ways in which nitrates can be replaced naturally in the soil?

1. lightning makes nitrates from nitrogen and oxygen in the air. the nitrates then get washed into the soil by rain. 2. animal and plants decompose- depositing organic nitrogen into the soil


What is coleche?

It is possible you may mean CALICHE. If so, it is a very hard, cemented soil that, depending on where you are, may contain carbonates or nitrates.


Where do beans get their nitrates from?

They absorb them from the soil where they grow.


The conversion of nitrates present in the soil or water to free molecular salts to nitrates?

nitrogen cycle


How do nitrates get in your water systems?

Acid rain contains nitrates, as does some runoff water from fertilized soil.


Why are nitrates used as sources of the metal ions?

Nitrates are used as sources of metal ions because all metal nitrates are soluble in water. This is very useful for metals such as lead and silver whose compounds are usually insoluble.


What returns to the soil in animal waste?

Nitrates and Oxygen


What changes nitrogen gas into nitrates?

lightning and/or soil in the ground


What Converts dead matter to soil nitrates or nitrites?

Rhizobium