The Carbon Cycle!
How does carbon exist in the atmosphere?
Carbon attaches to oxygen to make carbon dioxide (CO2 ). Pants then pull the CO2 out of the atmosphere using photosynthesis.
How are fossil fuels created? Explain.
When plants and animals die the carbon does thing called infiltration. All this means is once the body decays it goes into the ground.
Describe two ways that carbon enters the atmosphere.
There's 2 ways carbon can enter the atmosphere:
1. Animal and plant respiration: Plants and animals breathe out CO2.
2. Factories: Factories burn fossil fuels.
How are the oceans involved in the carbon cycle?
The ocean is a "sink" for carbon. The absorb most of the carbon that enters the atmosphere.
How is the temperature of the Earth partly controlled by carbon?
CO2 is a green house gas. The more we burn the warmer earth becomes.
What role do rocks have within the carbon cycle?
Marine animals use limestones to create their shells. In order to make limestone you need carbon.
Where are you starting within the carbon cycle?
The atmosphere
How much of the atmosphere is made of carbon dioxide (CO2)?
0.04%
By how much has CO2 increased in the atmosphere during the past 150 years?
30%
Next stop = Surface Ocean
I got here by diffusing from the atmosphere. The ocean absorbs more carbon than land does. The surface ocean takes in approximately 90 Gigatons of carbon per year. Cold
water absorbs carbon faster than warm water.
Next stop = Deep Ocean
Carbon infiltrated into the deep ocean. It usually stays there for hundreds of years and holds 65% of earth's carbon.
The deep ocean accounts for more than 65% of the Earth’s carbon.
How much carbon does the surface ocean absorb from the atmosphere each year?
90 Gigatons
True: When plants die and decay, they bring carbon into soil.
Next stop = Surface Ocean
Next stop = Marine life
Phytoplankton use carbon for nutrition so they can do photosynthesis. Carbon is needed for marine life to survive, but too much can be a problem.
When carbon enters the deep ocean, how long does it stay there? Hundreds of years.
True: Phytoplankton are tiny plants and algae that float in the ocean and take up carbon dioxide as they grow.
True: Plants both absorb CO2 from the atmosphere and release it into the atmosphere.
Carbon attaches to oxygen to make carbon dioxide (CO2 ). Pants then pull the CO2 out of the atmosphere using photosynthesis.
How are fossil fuels created? Explain.
When plants and animals die the carbon does thing called infiltration. All this means is once the body decays it goes into the ground.
Describe two ways that carbon enters the atmosphere.
There's 2 ways carbon can enter the atmosphere:
1. Animal and plant respiration: Plants and animals breathe out CO2.
2. Factories: Factories burn fossil fuels.
How are the oceans involved in the carbon cycle?
The ocean is a "sink" for carbon. The absorb most of the carbon that enters the atmosphere.
How is the temperature of the Earth partly controlled by carbon?
CO2 is a green house gas. The more we burn the warmer earth becomes.
What role do rocks have within the carbon cycle?
Marine animals use limestones to create their shells. In order to make limestone you need carbon.
Where are you starting within the carbon cycle?
The atmosphere
How much of the atmosphere is made of carbon dioxide (CO2)?
0.04%
By how much has CO2 increased in the atmosphere during the past 150 years?
30%
Next stop = Surface Ocean
I got here by diffusing from the atmosphere. The ocean absorbs more carbon than land does. The surface ocean takes in approximately 90 Gigatons of carbon per year. Cold
water absorbs carbon faster than warm water.
Next stop = Deep Ocean
Carbon infiltrated into the deep ocean. It usually stays there for hundreds of years and holds 65% of earth's carbon.
The deep ocean accounts for more than 65% of the Earth’s carbon.
How much carbon does the surface ocean absorb from the atmosphere each year?
90 Gigatons
True: When plants die and decay, they bring carbon into soil.
Next stop = Surface Ocean
Next stop = Marine life
Phytoplankton use carbon for nutrition so they can do photosynthesis. Carbon is needed for marine life to survive, but too much can be a problem.
When carbon enters the deep ocean, how long does it stay there? Hundreds of years.
True: Phytoplankton are tiny plants and algae that float in the ocean and take up carbon dioxide as they grow.
True: Plants both absorb CO2 from the atmosphere and release it into the atmosphere.