The Nitrogen Cycle

Steps

1) Elephants get the nitrogen they need when they eat plants.

2) Nitrogen returns to the soil through elephant's waste and the death of plants and other animals. (Including elephants)

3) The bacteria that lives in the soil change the nitrogen by fixing it so it can be absorbed through plant roots.

4) Then plants use nitrogen in their cells.

Plants (producers) are eaten by elephants (producers and consumers) for nitrogen and then the nitrogen returns back to the soil by elephant's waste or death. When the elephant dies decomposers decompose their body which releases the nitrogen back into the atmosphere so that it can be reused again and again.