Difference between Water and Nitrogen cycle
Difference between Water cycle and Nitrogen cycle are in tabular form below –
No. |
Water cycle |
Nitrogen cycle |
1. | When water travels through three phases such as gas, liquid and solid, and it travels from the earth to the atmosphere and atmosphere to earth again, this is known as Water cycle. | When the process of conversion of nitrogen between its various forms of chemical carries out through physical and biological processes then it is known as Nitrogen cycle. |
2. | In the water cycle, the process is of water. | In the nitrogen cycle, the process is of nitrogen. |
3. | The changes of state of water through various components is a Water cycle. | The conversion of nitrogen cycle into chemical forms is a Nitrogen cycle. |
4. | It will always remain as H2O. | It changes into various chemical forms. |
5. | Bacterial activities are not involved in the water cycle. | Bacterial activities are involved in the nitrogen cycle. |
6. | The cycle is less complicated and major processes are condensation, transpiration, precipitation, surface runoff etc. | The cycle is more complicated and major processes are nitrogen fixation, nitrification, denitrification and ammonification etc. |