Answer:
Use your understanding of the phosphorus cycle to answer the questions provided.
Phosphorus cycles between living things and the .
Identify the steps of the phosphorus cycle described. Step 1 has been identified for you.
Step 1: Plants absorb phosphates in the soil and turn them into organic compounds through assimilation.
Animals eat these plants and pass the phosphorus through the food chain.
An animal dies and decays, returning the phosphorus to the soil, and the cycle repeats.
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