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PHOSPHORO
US CYCLE
CONTENTS
1. What is phosphorous?
6. Human effects
What is phosphorous?
Phosphorusis a chemicalelementfound on
Earth in numerouscompoundforms such as :
in soil
phosphateio in water
n (PO43-)
in sediment
The quantities of
phosphorus in soil
Human activities like deforestation and over-fertilizing of crop fields can result in too much
phosphorous entering a stream, lake, or ocean.
This results in an algae population explosion that can be harmful to many other aquatic life
forms.
Human Effects
The mining of phosphate ores for fertilizer
affects the time cycle of the phosphorous cycle