Sulfur Cycle

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Rapid Cycling of Sulfur

animals eat the plants with sulfur, animals or plant dies and decomposes, sulfur is returned to the ground (or its fossil fuels)

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Slow Cycling of Sulfur

-sulfur is released in the air (geological uplift)

-sulfur is returned through acid rain

-sulfates are used by plants and returned once the plants die

-some of the sulfur is returned to the ground and redeposited

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Role of Bacteria in cycling?

Bacteria in soil allows sulfates to be used by plants

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Role in acid precipitation?

sulfur from rocks or fossil fuels is released into the atmosphere