Question

you are a molecule of phosphorus. choose a starting point in the phosphorus cycle and describe the process you would go through to move through the entire cycle.

Answer 1

Phosphorus cycles between living things and the soil. Plants absorb phosphates from the soil and turn them into organic compounds through assimilation. Animals eat plants and pass the phosphorus through the food chain from one animal to the other. An animal dies and decomposes, returning the phosphorus to the soil.

Answer 2

Plants absorb me from the soil through assimilation, I am eaten by animals the animals and plants die and decompose where I am released back into the soil, weathering and erosion cause me to release out of rocks, I then find my way into the ocean being carried by water, I then return to the soil through the water.