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Nutrient cycling

Why this is asked: Sort each cycle by where its reservoir sits: carbon, nitrogen and oxygen are gaseous cycles with the atmosphere as reservoir, while phosphorus and sulphur are sedimentary, drawing from the earth's crust — phosphorus in particular has essentially no gaseous phase at all, unlike the other three.

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