Water Conservation Activities and Resources for Students: This resource from the Arizona Department of Water Resources links to fact sheets, crossword puzzles, games, coloring books, activities, and booklets teachers and parents can use to spark an interest in water conservation.
o The Nitrogen Cycle: Defined. The nitrogen cycle is defined as the pathways for which nitrogen is recycled. As with all elements, nitrogen is constantly combined and uncombined with other elements to form essential and nonessential compounds for life.
Therefore, nitrogen fixation is essential for agriculture and the manufacture of fertilizer. It is also an important process in the manufacture of explosives (e.g. gunpowder, dynamite, TNT, etc.). Nitrogen fixation occurs naturally in the air by means of lightning.Biological nitrogen fixation can include conversion to nitrogen dioxide. All biological nitrogen fixation is done by way of nitrogenase metalo-enzymes which contain iron, molybdenum, or vanadium.Microorganisms that can fix nitrogen are prokaryotes (both bacteria and archaea, distributed throughout their respective kingdoms) called diazotrophs.iological nitrogen fixation was discovered by the German agronomist Hermann Hellriegel and Dutch microbiologist Martinus Beijerinck. Biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) occurs when atmospheric nitrogen is converted to ammonia by an enzyme called a nitrogenase.