Carbon Cycle review

What is a carbon cycle?

The carbon cycle describes how carbon moves through the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and Geosphere. carbon is essentials for life and cycles through living organism, air, water, and land

Photosynthesis

Take in C02 from the atmosphere and use sunlights to make food: this process stores carbon in plant tissues (called “producers”)

Respiration

Animal and plants releases co2 back into the atmosphere when they break down food for energy.

Ocean Asorption

the hydrosphere (espically oceans) aborbs c02 from the atmosphere. Some carbon is used by marine life; some sinks to the ocean floor

Combustion

burning fossil fuels or biomass releases stored carbon into the atmospshere as c02

Decomposition

Decomposers (Like fungi and bacteria) break down dead organisms, releasing carbon into the soil (geosphere) and atmosphere.

Sedimentation

Carbon from dead marine organisms settles on the ocean floor and becomes part of a sedimentary rock over time

Producers

Plants and algae that make their food through photosynthesis

Primary Consumers

Animal that eat producers (e.g herbivores)

Secondary Consumers

Animals that eat primary (e.g Carnivores)

Decomposers

organism break down dead plants and animals, recycling carbon.