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Matter generally cycles through ecosystems. For example, trees use nutrients in the soil to make leaves. When leave fall to the ground, the nutrients stored in the leaves return to the soil and are reused. However, not all the materials that plants use to make leaves are recycled within the ecosystem. Describe how two materials that trees need come from outside of the tree's ecosystem and leave the ecosystem after they are used.