Just Fertilize It

Claim: Replacing natural areas, such as rain forests, (more specifically, the Amazon) with fertilizer is a bad idea because it affects the ecosystem's cycles.

Human's Impact on the Rainforest: Bad

• Deforestation
• Trees - charcoal - industrial plants

Reasons Why (Water and Carbon Cycle)

• The fertilizer would taint the water
• Not as much respiration to add to the carbon cycle
• Not enough trees to preform photosynthesis and turn carbon into oxygen- 20% of the world's oxygen

Water Cycle

Carbon Cycle

Reasons Why (Nitrogen and Phosphorous Cycle)

• There wouldn't be animals, plants, or decomposers to convert the nitrogen into usable nutrients
• The fertilizer would overload both the phophorous and nitrogen cycle
• There wouldn't be any dead animals to add nutrients to the phosphorous cycle
• There wouldn't be any plants to absorb the phosphate

Nitrogen Cycle

Phosphorous Cycle

How energy is cycled

• Air (CO2, N2, and O2)
• Photosynthesis
• Monkey eats the tree's leaves and breathes out carbon dioxide (carbon cycle)
• Monkey dies
• Monkey remains decompose and are converted into ammonium, carbon and phosphates (nitrogen, phosphorous and carbon cycle)
• The ammonium is turned into nitrites and then nitrates.
• The plants get the nitrogen from the soil to grow.
• The plants preform photosynthesis with the nutrients (phosphates, water, and nitrogen) from the soil to produce oxygen for the air.

How Energy is Cycled Cont.

• The plants get the nitrogen (nitrates) from the soil to grow.
• The plants preform photosynthesis with the nutrients (phosphates, water, and nitrogen) from the soil to produce oxygen for the air.

The End