Question

Summarize the feedback loop (transfer of energy) between the microbes and the mushrooms. (Video #1)

What is the Nitrogen Cycle? Discuss the 3 types of microbes required for the nitrogen cycle. What would happen to the soil if the microbes were not there?(Video #2)

Where and how does carbon move? How do plants help recycle CO2? Where do plants get their CO2 from? (Video #3)

Scientists are wondering how soil and soil microbes interact, how they will respond to global warming, specifically what will happen to the levels of CO2 and CH4 if the soil warms up.


Analyze the Results from this student’s data (Links to an external site.)

Based on these results, (1) would the warming of the climate cause an increase or a decrease in soil respiration? Use data to back up your claim. (2) How might this impact the environment?

Answer 1

Cyanobacteria, Azotobactor and Azospirillum are the microbes which is required for nitrogen cycle.

Step-by-step explanation:

Nitrogen Cycle is a type of cycle in which nitrogen moves from atmosphere to the earth surface and again return back to the atmosphere. Cyanobacteria, Azotobactor and Azospirillum are the microbes which is required for nitrogen cycle. If these microbes is vanished from the environment, the nitrogen cannot be converted into other forms. Carbon is present in the atmosphere in carbondioxide form. This CO2 is used by the plants from atmosphere and make food from it. When these plants are eaten by animals, this CO2 is again release in the atmosphere. Due to global warming, the microbes present in the soil die due to increase in temperature of the soil. Levels of CO2 and CH4 increases if the soil warms up. With the increase in temperature, soil respiration increases which leads to more emission of CO2 and as a result more global warming occurs.