The diagram explains the nitrogen cycle on Earth. The black arrows represent the movement of nitrogen and how it changes during the process.
Nitrogen gas (N2) in the atmosphere is converted into nitrogen compounds by plants or bacteria in the soil. Animals like the cow shown on the diagram consume the nitrogen compounds, which are contained in the plants. When the animals digest the plant and produce waste, it goes back into the soil. The nitrogen gas is also converted into other nitrogen compounds by bacteria in the soil. Other types of plants and bacteria change these nitrogen compounds from animal waste or other bacteria into nitrogen gas again. The gas goes back into the atmosphere, back where it started from.
Nitrogen plays a very important role in our ecosystem. The nitrogen compounds, when absorbed by plants and eaten by animals, provide the building blocks for proteins. These proteins are essential for life. 
The diagram  
explains
 the nitrogen cycle on Earth. The black arrows represent the movement of nitrogen and how it  
changes
 during the process.
Nitrogen  
gas
 (N2) in the atmosphere  
is converted
 into nitrogen compounds by  
plants
 or bacteria in the soil.  
Animals
 like the cow shown on the diagram consume the nitrogen compounds, which  
are contained
 in the  
plants
. When the  
animals
 digest the  
plant
 and produce waste, it goes back into the soil. The nitrogen  
gas
 is  
also
 converted into other nitrogen compounds by bacteria in the soil. Other types of  
plants
 and bacteria  
change
 these nitrogen compounds from  
animal
 waste or other bacteria into nitrogen  
gas
 again. The  
gas
 goes back into the atmosphere, back where it  
started
 from.
Nitrogen plays a  
very
  important
 role in our ecosystem. The nitrogen compounds, when absorbed by  
plants
 and eaten by  
animals
, provide the building blocks for proteins. These proteins are essential for life.