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The Carbon Cycle

Horizontales
Anything that produces carbon
The natural storage of carbon by physical or biological processes such as photosynthesis.
Where is the largest amount of carbon on Earth is stored?
Naturally returns carbon that has been trapped for millions of years in rocks deep within the earth’s crust, to the atmosphere.
It takes over 100-200 million years for carbon atoms move through this
A process when living organisms (plants & animals) break down sugars (glucose) and oxygen and change them into ATP energy, carbon dioxide CO2, and Water. Carbon is released into the amosphere
A chemical element that is essential to all living things.
diffusion, sinking, rock cycles, burning fossil fuels, burning, erupting volcano, deep ocean currents, food web, photosynthesis
The breakdown of dead matter and wastes by decomposers; stored carbon from animal remains is released back into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide
Verticales
Carbon moves from one place to another through various chemical, physical, geological, and biological processes.
The ultimate source of energy for all living things.
an atmospheric phenomenon which causes a risie in the level of carbon dioxide
photosynthesis, respiration, decomposition, combustion
breakdown of rocks
A decrease in the pH of oceans caused by the uptake of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
Coal, oil, natural gas, and other fuels that are ancient remains of plants and animals.
carbon combines with calcium and get incorporated into marine organisms to form their shells
The breakdown of rocks- physical/biological/chemical processes chemical- usually involve rainwater- acid rain- weak carbonic acid
stores that absorbs more carbon than it releases
The lowest layer of the atmoshere, in which temerature decreases at a constant rate as altitude increases