What is the meaning of "nutrient cycle"?

1 Answer

Cyclic movement of minerals from the atmosphre to organisms and back to the atmosphere.

Explanation:

  1. The nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus, etc., are absorbed by plants from the root systems and from plants move to the animals via herbivores to carnivores.
  2. By death and decay of both plants and animals, the nutrients are again come back to the atmosphere by decomposition from microbes. It is nutrients cycle, The nutrients cycles maintains the nutrients in the atmosphere. Thank you.