THE NITROGEN CYCLE

Biogeochemical

• substance turnover or cycling of substances is a pathway by which a chemical substance moves through both biotic (biosphere) and abiotic (lithosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere) compartments of Earth.

How energy moves in The Nitrogen Cycle

• Energy breaks apart the atoms in half, creating the nitrogen molecules.

How matter moves in The Nitrogen Cycle

• Nitrogen can be found in the matter or waste like poop and without that matter, there is no Nitrogen.

1st Law of thermodynamics

• Energy can't be created or destroyed but changed.

2nd Law of thermodynamics

• the state of entropy of the entire universe, as a closed isolated system, will always increase over time. The second law also states that the changes in the entropy in the universe can never be negative.

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