Question

(nutrient Cycles)

1. described what "carbon-based life"
means:

2. what causes carbon to return to the atmosphere in a very short time?

3. if one or more nutrients are missing in soil what could happen to the plants?

4. in salt water, blank causes algal blooms whereas in freshwater blank algal blooms.​

Answer 1

1. When we say life is carbon based, we mean that our skin, hat and cells are all made out of molecules that contain large amounts of carbons. Carbon atoms form the backbone of almost all the important biological molecules in our bodies ( except water ).