Flashcard sets with a 'phosphorous cycle' term meaning 'most enters the ocean as phsophate in rivers. primary producers incorporate the phosphate into roganic matter, which is passed on up the food chain or becomes dtritus or dissolved organic matter. the phosphorus in organims and detritus is deposited in biogenic sediments. dissolved posphate is also deposited when chemical reactons convert it into insoluble forms that precipiate to the sediments'

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