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Traveling Nitrogen . Nitrogen is an element that is found in both the living portion of our planet and the inorganic parts of the Earth system. It cycles ceaselessly through the Earth system. Nitrogen atoms do not always take the same path through the system. There are many potential routes. . - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Traveling Nitrogen Nitrogen is an element that is found in both the living portion of our planet
and the inorganic parts of the Earth system. It cycles ceaselessly through the Earth system. Nitrogen atoms do not always take the same path through the
system. There are many potential routes.
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Students, you are now nitrogen atoms traveling through the nitrogen cycle. You are eager to travel far and wide, see how many places you can visit in one minute. But before your journey begins.. What would a world trip be without some evidence? You are to keep a journal of all the places you have been and how you got there!
Fly away little nitrogen atoms
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Choose your first destination!
ATMOSPHERE
SURFACE WATER
RAIN WATER
GROUND WATER
SOIL
LIVE ANIMALS
ANIMAL WASTE
LIVE PLANTS
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Lightning strikes! Nitrogen gas is mada into a solid and travels to the soil!
Click to go to soil
Blue green algae and bacteria convert you into a solid bringing you to the soil!
Click to go to soil
Bean plants extract you from the air and bring you to the soil!
Click to go to soil
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You are just the sort of nitrogen that plants need. You are now in a live plant!
Click to go to live plant
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You percolate deep underground in the groundwater!
Click to go to the groundwater
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You fall into a lake or stream so now you are part of surface water.
Click to go to surface water
You fall on the land and become part of the soil!
Click to go to the soil
You percolate deep underground in the groundwater!
Click to go to the groundwater
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GROUND WATER
The groundwater you are dissolved within travels and you become part of the surface water!
Click to go to the surface water
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SOIL
You dissolve and wash into the groundwater!
Click to go to the ground water
You dissolve and wash into the surface water!
Click to go to the surface water
You are just the sort of nitrogen that plants need. You are now in a live plant!
Click to go to live plants
Bacteria transformed you into nitrogen gas. You are now in the atmosphere!
Click to go to the atmosphere
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LIVE ANIMALS
Congratulations! The animal that you were within has excreted and you are in its waste. Go to animal waste!
Click to go to animal waste
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What’s that in the water? You have dissolved into surface water!
Click to go to surface water
Look out before someone steps in you! Now you decompose in the soil!
Click to go to soil
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LIVE PLANTS
An animal has eaten the plant you are in! Go to live animals.
Click to go to a live animal
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