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What is the carbon cycle?
It describes the movement of molecules that contain carbon
What is a carbon sink?
Reservoirs that store carbon for long periods of time
Carbon sink examples
Photosynthesis, ocean, sedimentary rock
What is Carbon source?
When an organism releases carbon into the environment through respiration or dying
Carbon source examples
Cellular respiration, deforestation, plant and animal decomposition, combustion
What are fossil fuels?
When crude minerals that are decomposites of decomposition of organisms refined into oil to provide energy
Examples of fossil fuels
Oil, coal, natural gas and agriculture(cows)
What is the first part of the carbon cycle?
Producers convert CO2 into suagr
What is the second part of the carbon cycle?
Sugars are converted into CO2
What is the third part of the carbon cycle?
Some carbon is buried into the soil
What is the fourth part of the carbon cycle?
Human extract fossil fuels to combust which brings carbon to the earth's surface.
What is the fifth part of the carbon cycle?
The atmospheric CO2 is absorbed by the water and is exchanged constantly
What is the sisth part of the carbon cycle?
Combustion converts fossil fuels and plants material into CO2
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