The Nitrogen Cycle

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What are the four different types of bacteria involved in the Nitrogen Cycle?
Decomposers, Nitrifying Bacteria, Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria and Denitrifying Bacteria.
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What do the decomposers do?
They decompose proteins and urea and turn them into ammonia.
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What does the Nitrifying Bacteria do?
They turn ammonia in decaying matter into nitrates.
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What do the Nitrogen-Fixing bacteria do?
They turn atmospheric N2(small 2) into nitrogen compounds that plants can use.
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What does the Denitrifying Bacteria do?
They turn nitrates back into
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Card 2

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What do the decomposers do?

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They decompose proteins and urea and turn them into ammonia.

Card 3

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What does the Nitrifying Bacteria do?

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Card 4

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What do the Nitrogen-Fixing bacteria do?

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Preview of the front of card 4

Card 5

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What does the Denitrifying Bacteria do?

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Preview of the front of card 5

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