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Compare the nitrogen, carbon, and oxygen cycles

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the main difference is the way how the three of those cycles are performed.
For example, as nitrogen is abundant then it cannot be used by plants or animals in its gas form. The carbon cycle does not need an especial process like the one of the nitrogen. Plants can take carbon dioxide and use it for photosynthesis. All three of these cycles are found in soil. oxygen cycles recycles the oxygen. all these cycles are very important to every oragnism.
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The three of them are basic elements for living organisms, that means that we use them for our basic needs.

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In nitrogen cycle, animals and plants can not return this element to the air as free element, we return it as a compound to the ground, and later is process by the bacteria and fungi that releases to the air as nitrogen gas.

In carbon and oxygen cycles, all the kingdoms use them, break down into different compounds like carbon dioxide that mixed both elements and later are released to the air.

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