Why is the nitrogen cycle important to humans?
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Nitrogen forms a big part of our atmosphere.
In fact, 78 percent of our air is nitrogen.
It is vital for living things.
It forms the basics of protein.
Animals and humans need proteins for our skin, muscles and hair etc.
Proteins help to digest food.
Nitrogen is received from plants, and plants receive it from bacteria in soil. The nitrogen cycle is a vital system for living beings.
Bacteria take nitrogen from air and convert it to nutrients in soil.
Those nutrients help in the proper growth of plants.
Animals and humans eat nitrogen inside the plants.
The animal waste returns nitrogen back to the soil.
Plants and animals also give out nitrogen back in the soil when they die.
The cycle is complete when other bacteria process the plant and living beings to release nitrogen back in soil and air.
Nitrogen not just provides nutrient for life but it also adds mass to atmosphere.
In fact, 78 percent of our air is nitrogen.
It is vital for living things.
It forms the basics of protein.
Animals and humans need proteins for our skin, muscles and hair etc.
Proteins help to digest food.
Nitrogen is received from plants, and plants receive it from bacteria in soil. The nitrogen cycle is a vital system for living beings.
Bacteria take nitrogen from air and convert it to nutrients in soil.
Those nutrients help in the proper growth of plants.
Animals and humans eat nitrogen inside the plants.
The animal waste returns nitrogen back to the soil.
Plants and animals also give out nitrogen back in the soil when they die.
The cycle is complete when other bacteria process the plant and living beings to release nitrogen back in soil and air.
Nitrogen not just provides nutrient for life but it also adds mass to atmosphere.
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It converts nitrogen into a form that humans can obtain by eating other organisms.
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