Drag the words or phrases on the left to the appropriate blanks on the right to complete the sentences. use only pink labels (reservoirs) for pink targets and blue labels (processes) for blue targets. not all terms will be used.

The pink labels include the plants, organic nutrients, and inorganic nutrients. The blue labels include plant uptake, decomposition, erosion or leaching.

The reservoir composed of organic nutrients in the soil being the largest reservoir of nutrients in the ecosystem.

The ecosystem loses and gains nutrients through the reservoir composed of inorganic nutrients in the soil. The process of decomposition limits the rate of nutrient cycling in the ecosystem. The process of erosion or leaching results in the largest loss of nutrients from the ecosystem.