Question

How does fossilized carbon get back into the atmosphere? (2 poic) living organisms need nitrogen to build proteins and nucleic acids, but nitrogen cannot be used by plants in its gaseous state. how does a plant get the nitrogen from the soil? name one of the nitrogen compounds produced in the process?

Answer 1

How does fossilized carbon get back into the atmosphere?
Fossilized carbon is coal. One major way it gets back into the atmosphere is by humans burning it in coal power plants. Carbon gets back into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide through the combustion of fossil fuels.

How does a plant get nitrogen from the soil?
Plants take nitrogen from the soil by absorption through their roots as amino acids, nitrate ions, nitrite ions, or ammonium ions.